• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I work in municipal government, and this is the one national case where I haven’t seen any of the police defending the PD. They’re all like “fuck those guys. They let kids die to limit liability insurance rates.”

    • pandapoo@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Unions should always back the due process rights of their members…

      Of all the things to shit on Police Unions for, this one actually requires a conviction to be valid.

      Until then, it is every union’s moral and ethic obligation to support their members as they go through the legal process.

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        Unions should always back the due process rights of their members…

        That’s not what’s being talked about and you know it.

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        4 months ago

        If all unions were equal, then sure. But many are corrupted or are run by corrupt people.

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          4 months ago

          I wouldn’t say many of them are corrupt, I don’t think that’s fair. I think it’s anti-union propaganda that’s been spread

          Some are though… And if you were to pick one example head and shoulders above all others, the police union definitely comes to mind

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              4 months ago

              What would that data look like? It’s not exactly a metric you can nail down

              “Unions are corrupt” was definitely a message intentionally spread, I can definitely find you some examples of corporations spreading that, but that’s not really data either

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        4 months ago

        Unions are supposed to protect the powerless.

        From my perspective, the police union wouldn’t be especially different from a corporate executives’ union.