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> When a police union goes against their management, we get the police riots of 2020. Or we get that time that the Baltimore (I'm like 90% sure it was Baltimor

> When a police union goes against their management, we get the police riots of 2020. Or we get that time that the Baltimore (I'm like 90% sure it was Baltimore) PD stopped enforcing everything that wasn't an obvious danger to the public. The only two groups who didn't like that were the government who was missing out on revenue and upper middle class types who were really pissed off that people were riding unregistered dirt bikes on the street. It was kind of a nice break for the common man.

mindslight 5y ago
Sure, a parallel command structure may make a good decision while the nominal command structure is corrupt. But I'd still say it's better to focus on the problem with the nominal command structure (eg why is the bike registration bureaucracy so overbearing) than to hope that the parallel structure will choose public benevolence when protesting their own issue. Furthermore I'd say that more often than not, a parallel structure for the police is going to choose actions that are not in the public interest. Hence how you're remembering this singular example of some temporary mostly harmless anarchy.