I think the issue in NYC might be the police union rather than the organization per se. As described in the article the source and enforcement of this particula

I think the issue in NYC might be the police union rather than the organization per se. As described in the article the source and enforcement of this particular practice is the union. I’m actually quite sympathetic to unions- it seems like there are many scenarios where they would really help workers - improving scheduling, making pay more fair, demanding health care benefits. (And unions have done all these things in the past!) But it seems like sometimes there is capture by a cartel that creates and enforces anti-social behavior. In the case of police, once the cartel is established I don’t see how it can be broken. In a small town, you can just fire the whole department and start over, but short of bringing in the national guard while you trained new police, I don’t know how a city like NYC could do this. This is important because as we’ve already experienced in the post-2020 period, if enough people ignore the police union political endorsements, they will take collective action to reduce public safety. So the cartel (along with violent criminals obviously) effectively can make their own rules. One solution might be to demand that the majority of police working in a region/burrough/etc, actually lived there????