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> "blue wall of silence" would become a very vocal supporter of police reform to identify and get rid of bad apples that threaten everybody's pension This soun
by ptaipale 11y ago
> "blue wall of silence" would become a very vocal supporter of police reform to identify and get rid of bad apples that threaten everybody's pension
This sounds like collective punishment - don't know about America, but over here, it would be not possible due to human rights treaties and legislation. The trade union or police would challenge this in a court and government would back down from such threats immediately.
(Hey, even cops are human. Especially they are human. So even they have human rights.)
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoIt depends on how you define the law. It could simply be a state or federal resolution that cuts funding to a municipality, regardless of where the money goes. So if money for roads and hospitals goes to pay for the misdeeds of bad cops and the administration takes no action, how will voters respond in the next election cycle?