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[–] 13 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Police have a lot of leverage power.

Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say "fuck you, we're not going to respond to emergency calls if you don't give us what we want"

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aaaaaaand they'll use that tactic to force cities not to implement alternatives to police, like qualified, unarmed, de-escalation trained mental health experts that handle certain situations better than cops, so police retain a total monopoly over state violence and decisions about if someone should be arrested or not... which then lets them keep their bargaining power to do it all over again.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Wasn't Mamdani saying the whole campaign that he promised to keep the NYPD budget in return for the NYPD refocusing on violent crime and the NYPD leadership staying? If he pissed off the entire NYPD things would probably be more expensive.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    It doesn't matter what he said, he's kind of at the mercy of (shitty) police unions.

    Just look at how they responded when de Blasio dared to level even the most tepid criticism.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    Cut their funding in half and see how much power they have.

    They are superfluous. That's kinda the point. We don't need them to respond to calls. Give half their funding to other people without guns to respond to calls.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    We don't need them to respond to calls

    Exactly, the last time the NYPD went on strike, crime went down lmao

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Crime didn't go up last strike

    In contrast to the Boston Police Strike of 1919, and the Montreal strike of 1969, there was no surge of crime or unrest.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say “fuck you, we’re not going to respond to emergency calls if you don’t give us what we want”

    So fun fact, when the police did that in NYC for a few weeks during De Blasio's term everyone was better off for it. Then instead of taking that leverage and cutting the NYPD budget in half, they went ahead and gave them everything they asked for anyway.

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