I'm on the left, and I'm not trying to deflect, engage in "whataboutism", or castigate unions in general. But all humans can succumb to perverse incentives: executives, stockholders, political representatives, and yes, even middle-class workers. The systemic corruption of police and prisons runs so deep, we need to be able to "walk and chew gum" in order to fix it, rather than assume that we can pull out a single thorn of bad policy.