The private employee is accountable to their boss. The police officer is accountable to the public.
Labor unions organize the interests of employees against employers.
Police unions organize the interests of the police *against the public*.
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in reply to ebihara • •not really against the students, but definitely against the public. The public doesn't want the pay taxes, the teachers want to get paid.
Teacher unions are also not lobbying to eliminate oversight from summary executions of students, so
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Unknown parent • •I have no idea how much policemen are paid in the US, but in my country it's not a well paying job, and that means that the people who chose to do it are:
* those who can't find another job
* those that are in it for the perks, such as being able to abuse their power
what can possibly go wrong?
And then there is a leadership who is happy to select the latter kind of policemen when they send somebody for crowd control related tasks. These are IMHO the ones that it is urgent to get rid of (and probably the hardest one to do so, since they are not the ones out there committing the abuses, they are facilitating and causing them while safely elsewhere)