silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoCities’ Efforts to Hold Police Accountable Hit a Wall: The Police | Civilian oversight boards face resistance across the country from those they are supposed to monitor.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down11cross-posted to: nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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minus-squarereagansrottencorpselinkfedilinkarrow-up54·8 months agoThis is the same reason police should not have a union. They already have a monopoly on use of force, for which they are immune from the repercussions.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 months agoCops don’t have unions. They have associations stretching the definition of the word “benevolent” long past breaking. A police benevolent association is like a giraffe pescetarian club.
This is the same reason police should not have a union. They already have a monopoly on use of force, for which they are immune from the repercussions.
Cops don’t have unions. They have associations stretching the definition of the word “benevolent” long past breaking.
A police benevolent association is like a giraffe pescetarian club.
ACAB.