What’s unfolding in New York City is, at its core, a public employee union using overheated rhetoric and emotional appeals to rile public employees into insubordination. The implied threat to the city’s elected leadership and electorate is clear: cede leverage to the police in the course of negotiating labor agreements or risk an armed, organized army rebelling against civilian control. Such tactics would infuriate the right if deployed by any bureaucracy save law enforcement opposing a left-of-center mayor.
What’s unfolding in New York City is, at its core, a public employee union using overheated rhetoric and emotional…
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In our semi socialist system here, “essential services” are regulated by law and Parliament can invoke laws to ensure the work is being done. If police decided to disobey the law, it would look bad for them and their union. Any or all credibility of theirs would be lost and hence any authority that goes with it. It’s a gamble they would surely lose, so they cannot dare.
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