Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API
by falcrist on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:09PM
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That's generally only possible in a public company ("public" meaning "publicly traded"). Even then, I don't think the stockholders are under any obligation to sell to you, so you still may not be able to purchase a controlling interest in the company. So if the board holds a controlling interest, you're out of luck.
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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API
by vkou on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:34PM
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The politicians you elect, likewise, have no obligation to actually follow through on their campaign promises.
Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API
by falcrist on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:42PM
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In the case of politicians, you can simply vote them out next election.
Board positions can be lifetime appointments.
Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API
by ryanbrunner on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:27AM
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This feels like quibbling. In both cases, the mechanism proposed as an alternative to collective bargaining is wildly unrealistic.
With a corporation, you need to buy a controlling interest of shares. With the "voting as collective bargaining" approach for public sector employees, you have a chance once in a while (depends where you live, but 4-5 years in most places) to try and convince a plurality of the overall population that the concerns of your profession outweigh the many, many other considerations people have in choosing who they vote for.
Either way, both options are not realistically achievable by nearly any union (ironically, I could see police as one exception - "tough on crime" policies, which are usually favourable to police unions, tend to be popular among voters, at least up until June 2020).