The biggest barrier to an actually just criminal justice system in America is cop unions. Reform is difficult, though, because the left doesn't want to pass legislation breaking the power of public employee unions, and the right likes bad and violent cops. www.techdirt.com/202...
The Fraternal Order of Police isn’t here to protect cops from anything but accountability. It doesn’t actually care about the rank-and-file, not when it can leverage its power to secure…
cop unions are the biggest form of cognitive dissonance for non-union people who support Unions, but don’t want to support the one solely dedicated to protecting legalized gangs.
Cop culture will never allow itself to be reformed. We need to fire every single cop in the country and start over.
Correct. Police unions are to the right what teachers unions are to the left. The right's complaints about teachers unions and the left's complaints about cop unions are both correct, but it will never change for just the reason you give.