If you thought police were deadly up till this point, wait until you hear about what unionization did to the U.S. police (hint: it got a hell of a lot of the rest of us killed.)
FOOTNOTES:

The History of Policing in the United States

Study finds misconduct spreads among police officers like contagion

The End of Policing 

How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts

The unjust power of police unions

How Police Unions Enable and Conceal Abuses of Power

Minneapolis Police Union President Allegedly Wore a “White Power Patch” and Made Racist Remarks

Police chiefs are often forced to put officers fired for misconduct back on the streets

How a 50-year-old study was misconstrued to create destructive broken-windows policing

In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’


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