Nor do they somehow have contractural agreements with their cities that limit civilian oversight and require that possible crimes by members have to be handled as internal disciplinary issues first.

Structurally this means evidence gathered by internal investigations will often be destroyed and can't be used for possible criminal charges, as well as plenty of time to tighten up stories and close ranks with each other.

Hey the military has rules of engagement.

Uniform Military Code of Justice and Military Court Martial.

Also, probably for obvious reasons military unions are strictly prohibited by federal law for active-duty personnel [1].

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/976

Parent post says "paramilitary" which is explicitly NOT the military.

I'm not sure what you're arguing against here, but it seems clear to me that the comment you're replying to was drawing a comparison to the military.

Right, they’re just the people tasked with educating and keeping safe our most vulnerable.

And they, already, don't have qualified immunity while they're doing so. They are also already disallowed in many places.

Are you seriously trying to equate people exercising their right to peacefully protest to the power to detain and shoot people?

Rarely does one see a single word do so much work as "spectrum" here attempting to link protests to paramilitary activity.

"On the spectrum of" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for you there. How many teachers have shot someone in their care this year? I'm guessing very few.

Also, "definitely not zero" is an absurd bar. "One teacher did something, better condemn all teachers!"

this may be the weirdest definition of "paramilitary activity" ive seen.

It’s not weird, it’s just a lie.

I hate how our society has just normalized people lying blatantly to our face and still giving the benefit of the doubt. It’s how you see a violent crowd breaking windows and beating people get called a peaceful tour.

Most propagandized people in the history of the world