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Police unions are fundamentally different from other forms of organized labor. No other union is composed of members who hold the legal monopoly on violence.


It’s the government that holds the monopoly on violence, not the police.


And the government in turn delegates that to the. What other profession can you kill an unarmed man and be back home for dinner the same day?


> What other profession can you kill an unarmed man and be back home for dinner the same day?

Doctor/surgeon? I think most of their patients are unarmed, hehe :)

Joke aside, police outside the US generally can't do that either.


Well, their authority to kill comes from the gov’t, not the police force itself.

If they kill someone they shouldn’t, then they get in trouble (yes, I know not always).


Lots of machine operating professions?




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