Comment on Should law enforcement workers form unions?
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 days agoYeah, great other working stuffs as the enemy, that’ll help.
Change hiring practices, change training, police can be a benefit.
Comment on Should law enforcement workers form unions?
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 days agoYeah, great other working stuffs as the enemy, that’ll help.
Change hiring practices, change training, police can be a benefit.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
No. It will not help. The problem is not the individuals we hire. It is the job we hire them for. The JOB is not labour. It is violence. The purpose of the police is to maintain the state’s “legitimate monopoly on violence.” The reason every police officer exists in every nation is to do violence against members of a state on behalf of that state’s needs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
Police are not labour and this is well known. So well known that technically, police in North America (and likely other jurisdictions) are not allowed to form unions. If you take a close look at the “police unions” in North America, you will find that they are all actually “police associations.” They don’t enjoy the same rights and powers as an actual union, but they adopt all the trappings so that people don’t realize, and don’t think about the true relationship between citizen, state, and the police.