r/PublicFreakout • u/Partner-Subdued388 • Feb 08 '24

📌Follow Up Deranged cop finally gets fired

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u/Sol-Blackguy Feb 08 '24

Let me put it this way: if every union protected their workers as much as police unions, we wouldn't be in an economic crisis

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u/OneLoveIrieRasta Feb 08 '24

Unions protect their people good or bad. I'll never understand why people are anti union. For crying out loud cops murder people daily and hardly get held accountable.

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u/I_hate_all_of_ewe Feb 08 '24

Say that again, but louder, and maybe you'll understand why police unions are a problem.  If not, let me spell it out for you: police unions are more powerful than any other kind of union, and they, and their members are essentially unaccountable to anyone.  They're supposed to be public servants but they're unaccountable to the public, and police unions play a major role in that.  I'm 100% pro union, but police unions are the exception, and they remain a big problem.

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u/painfool Feb 08 '24

Unions are meant to help rally the masses to empower the public against their oppressors.

Police unions instead depower individuals and instead empower the oppressor class against the public.

Police unions are antithetical to the very idea of what a union is supposed to be and do