Remember, kids: don’t try this at home!

  • bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    It’s like the best way to prevent police brutality and murder: simply make them individually liable for damages and require them to carry insurance for it. Bad actions make you uninsurable, and the rest of your department more risky (expensive).

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Ironically the reason we have this problem is because the armed guards of capital are one of the only jobs that still have strong unions.

      • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        15 days ago

        So what I’m hearing is let’s just disband public service unions. Sorry for teachers union but we can make that work better for them anyway if police cant have a union either. Just take all the money from them, and give it to teachers, and one half of the problem is solved.

        Or reclassify police from “public good” (less likely).

        Sorry but government employees shouldn’t -need- or even be eligible for unions because thats what elections are for. Unhappy with the protections of your job? Ballot initiative them better. Or get bent. One or the other.

        • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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          15 days ago

          Most government employees are not elected. Needing the entire state to vote on a ballot initiative to get a raise would make it even harder than it already is for teachers…

          This comment was made after the half dozen edits you made clarifying to no one.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
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          14 days ago

          We can only wish teachers unions were as powerful as police unions. The world would be very different

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          15 days ago

          No one has replied to this comment, yet you’ve edited it as though you’re having multiple conversations.

          Are you ok?