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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*.
in reply to Drew DeVault

The power dynamic is different, too. Employers have the power in the employee/employer relationship, since the latter is dependent on them for their income and livelihood. In the relationship between the police and public, the police are in power, they have a monopoly on force.
in reply to Drew DeVault

In most US cities the PD is only accountable to the mayor. The public is more like a raw material that the police extract value from.
in reply to 🙈🙉🙊

the mayor is an elected representative of the public. It's an indirection but ultimately it's still the public that they're accountable to
in reply to Drew DeVault

Just the same as teachers unions organize the interests of teachers against their students.
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
in reply to Drew DeVault

The shittiest teachers I ever had were all union whores. They were completely unfireable.
in reply to Drew DeVault

See, it's that second premise there that's the problem. Hasn't been true for a while now.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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)

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