Aaron Fox
Well-known member
No, part of the problem was before the public sector had unions, the various political machines (both Dem and Rep) would stock the precincts with their cronies in the case of the police. So actual police (and later teachers, firefighters, and other public sector jobs outside the military) started the unions as part of the pushback against the politics of the time and actually get policing and not use the police as a political tool. Back then -outside of the Progressives- both parties tried some End of the Roman Republic shenanigans (particularly the Political Machines) with them. It isn't uncommon for the time for 'good cops' to get shafted and replaced by political cronies.Public sector unions were a mistake.
They aren't a mistake, they are a byproduct of an era that most people forgotten and stayed that way.
What the US really needs is a national police system with all the things that police precincts need from equipment to training to oversight.