Abstract
Using an event-study design, we examine whether states' introduction of duty-to-bargain requirements for police unions led to meaningful changes in civilians killed by law enforcement. We find that the introduction of collective bargaining rights significantly increases the number of civilians killed by police, particularly among non-White civilians, while having limited effects on officer safety. Our results indicate that the adoption of bargaining rights for law enforcement can explain 14 percent of all non-White civilian deaths by legal intervention between 1959 and 1988. Given our findings, the idea that police unions exacerbate violence is empirically grounded.
>>2881506Fuck em.
Their bargaining power comes from suppressing the rest of the working classes.
Fuck em.
>>2881506The police themselves shouldn’t even exist. They are nothing more than occupying forces, and are at best lumpen in their character.
Public service unions may be useful as staging grounds depending on their state, but will ultimately become a concept that has lost its relevance entirely.
>>2881521Shut the fuck up, porky bitch
they're the only kind of unionization in america that hasn't been largely wiped out because a city can't survive a police strike and you can't replace cops with robots or foreigners and deputizing the citizenry into vigilante scab mobs would just make the situation even worse. if it weren't for the unique degree of leverage their position provides police unions would be as dead as every other kind of union.
police will bust unions while protecting their own unions. this proves they are class traitors. but there is another important lesson to learn from them. their ubiquity proves that armed unionism works. they are one of the few domains of US society that hasn't gotten fully privatized because the armed pig unions would throw a shit fit if it happened.
>>2881524
in: strike
out: broken strikes
>>2881506Police shouldn't be allowed unions. Advocate against this if attempted.
This could have gone in /qtddtot/
>>2883133>shouldn't be allowed unions"shouldn't" doesn't matter if you aren't making it happen. make it happen.
>>2881881it's because they are not just unionized, but armed. the idea that society would collapse into lawless anarchy without pigs is just pig apologism. The truth is the pigs are criminals, but society flips definitions so they're called law enforcers. When a law enforcer breaks the law and commits a crime on you, that makes you the criminal. they can plant drugs in your pocket or bait you into doing something illegal.
>>2881881>if it weren't for the unique degree of leverage their position provides their position as strike breakers, homeless-harrassers, racists, and defenders of private property from the unwashed masses
>>2883244>their position as strike breakers, homeless-harrassers, racists, and defenders of private property from the unwashed massesVigilantes would do that for free sadly
>>2881510What replaces the Police after abolishment?
>>2883247Special Circumstances, very well trained people able to use diplomacy or violence to resolve situations, think SWAT but they read books and have a phd in whatever. We can get rid of most of the police without changing the system tbh, if we get rid of private property they don't make much sense anymore.
>>2883301This but unironically
>>2883247A universal public militia in which all of-age people are expected to serve.
So basically, the complete opposite of
>>2883254 >>2883953why
wouldn't it include the rapists?