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.
A policeman is a productive worker, a true proletariat. In a simple input-output table we can demonstrate his productivity:
>IN: crime
<productive work happens here (=value is added) using means of production (e.g. walkie talkies, batons, police dogs, etc.)
>OUT: peace and orderliness
So to OP's question: yes, police unions are part of the broader organized working class movement and has the element (as Lenin called it) of class- consciousness.
>>2881521Shut the fuck up, porky bitch