You can’t touch a single police officer without them throwing a hissy fit and shutting everything down.

  • theyoyomaster@lemmy.world
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    Are you going to argue that police unions are a net good? They are the reason we have impenetrable qualifed immunity for even ridiculously egregious misconduct and any time a cop is shown to actually go over the absurdly strict line of what they can be held legally accountable for, the unions protect them at all costs. The reason criminal cops can just get hired at any other PD and their past is covered up/ignored is the police unions. I’m not saying they don’t do good things, but the bad they do is way too much to overlook.

    With the legal authority police have, they need to be held to higher standards than the average person, instead the unions voraciously fight to ensure there are virtually zero standards for police conduct.

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      52 minutes ago

      There’s very clearly no indication that they are implying police unions are good, they’re implying they are effective. Which is inarguable.