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by dragonwriter 1663 days ago
> If police unions defend officers from all accountability...surprise!

Lots of unions try the same and are far less effective; police unions are not inherently powerful, they are granted power by the fact that the citizenry in the US worships military and paramilitary forces and grants undue deference to them, particularly, in regard to this issue, in selecting the civilian political leaders to whom police are nominally accountable.