The difference is that we, as the taxpaying public, have no choice but to fund this organization (the "union") because our civic entity (the police force) is ob

The difference is that we, as the taxpaying public, have no choice but to fund this organization (the "union") because our civic entity (the police force) is obliged to hire only from among its membership. I don't care what these cops or their privately-funded lawyers say. But I do care that I have to fund this idiocy.