Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API
by gruez on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:00PM
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Imagine if the army was unionized, and started lobbying the government for whether we should participate in wars or not. Or more worryingly, lobbied for change to rules of engagement. Add to that, the fact that everyone in the military was in the union, from the lowest level recruits to the generals. This is as opposed to other unions where management are typically excluded.
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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API
by pjc50 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:06PM
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Ah, the traditional military coup popular in Latin America. Turkey used to have the military as an unofficial brake on the islamism of the government, but they finally managed have a purge and consolidate power.
Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API
by baddox on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:21PM
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The army already has top-down centralized control, right? Much more so than most big organizations. Clearly the army can already choose whether to participate in wars or not, that's what they do. They don't even need to lobby to change rules of engagement, if they chose to change things it would happen. Of course we hope and expect them to follow the rules, but it's not like "letting" them technically unionize would somehow fundamentally change anything.