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daredtowork

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32. I think some would take advantage

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 03:46 PM

Dec 2014

if they can predict when the police won't be there.

If the community doesn't work together to protect itself in any way, it will be vulnerable to whoever does get a pack of wolves together to loot.

But if the police aren't answerable to the community and aren't trusted to protect people anyway...then, hmmm...

The police "unions" seem to have become some transcendent force that get to work as police just because they say so. As a lifelong, passionate supporter of unionism, I have to say that's the type of attitude that makes unions work bad. At the root of a labor union is the job you were originally hired to do.

The looming question for the police: are they the lackeys of a few uber wealthy property owners and political elites or do they serve the community at large? If the community at large has been giving the police some negative performance feedback, is the proper response to say "I will just avoid working until you give in?" That's not the response if the community is who you protect and serve.

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So police go on a national, general strike, tomorrow, ALL of them nationwide... [View all] randys1 Dec 2014 OP

In our defense, we do have unique circumstances LittleBlue Dec 2014 #1

End the war on drugs-legalize them TexasProgresive Dec 2014 #31

Fully agreed LittleBlue Dec 2014 #33

And subsidize the drugs for low income FrodosPet Dec 2014 #55

Damn I should make a run to Colorado. B Calm Dec 2014 #2

Yep! LOL! RKP5637 Dec 2014 #37

1,084 miles one way for me. . . B Calm Dec 2014 #40

I'm warming the pickup up now madokie Dec 2014 #47

Yikes! How will that work? Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #3

It's unclear to me what you think the consequences would be. Brickbat Dec 2014 #4

Do we? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Dec 2014 #5

I think u missed the point of the thread joeglow3 Dec 2014 #14

That's a lot of negatives, and pretty hard to prove. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Dec 2014 #27

seems to me that if police didn't exist hfojvt Dec 2014 #41

Crime has been dropping for decades. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Dec 2014 #54

I called the police for the first time last year loyalsister Dec 2014 #53

When I painted my house Erich Bloodaxe BSN Dec 2014 #56

The lucrative prison industry won't like that very much. arcane1 Dec 2014 #6

Are the high way patrol also on strike? GummyBearz Dec 2014 #7

Wow, is there a bigger group of CRYBABIES on this planet? Rex Dec 2014 #8

Haven't met one yet that wasn't on a huge ego trip. B Calm Dec 2014 #11

I've met a few. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Dec 2014 #28

Agreed. The true colors are being shown, and their fetish for "respect" interferes with their duty. arcane1 Dec 2014 #15

The for-profit prison barons will not stand for this for long imo. Rex Dec 2014 #17

Is this hypothetical? cyberswede Dec 2014 #9

Well, in the vast majority of cases the cops are only there..... socialist_n_TN Dec 2014 #10

I guess the police don't work for the public anymore daredtowork Dec 2014 #12

There was movie called "The Purge" that sounds like this. Brigid Dec 2014 #18

Yes that's it daredtowork Dec 2014 #26

The 0.01% would never allow it Cirque du So-What Dec 2014 #13

Blaming the NRA for this, too? aikoaiko Dec 2014 #16

They were behind the Sony hack too!!! VScott Dec 2014 #20

And the potato famine. Glassunion Dec 2014 #36

Nothing would please pro-gun radicals more than for the police to disappear. (nt) Paladin Dec 2014 #44

Entire Town�s Police Force Went on Strike, It Backfired. No One Wants Them Back Katashi_itto Dec 2014 #19

interesting about red lights hfojvt Dec 2014 #45

"Thanks NRA and gun manufacturers, thanks a lot." VScott Dec 2014 #21

Reagan Showed us the Way. Fire them. Hire new ones. Katashi_itto Dec 2014 #22

+1 LOL B Calm Dec 2014 #23

This is the approach that I support. Skidmore Dec 2014 #25

+1, I'd support that purely to watch conservatives have a fit as they Marr Dec 2014 #38

95% of the carnage would be people doing idiotic things with their automobiles. hunter Dec 2014 #24

Yup, it's firefighters and EMTs you don't want to strike in traffic cases. nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Dec 2014 #30

I think some would take advantage daredtowork Dec 2014 #32

I can guarantee that this is one time Republican Governors and Mayors won't be union busting�. world wide wally Dec 2014 #29

Would never happen Glassunion Dec 2014 #34

They are a union members. I support unions and wouls not cross a picket line tomorrow Agnosticsherbet Dec 2014 #35

A little side experiment. A county I grew up in decided to put a country policeman in each small jwirr Dec 2014 #39

I see no such strike being reported. Bluenorthwest Dec 2014 #42

I'm a public employee. We don't have the right to strike. yewberry Dec 2014 #43

is someone arguing we don't need police? Takket Dec 2014 #46

I don't see a dire situation occurring notadmblnd Dec 2014 #48

People don�t want to get rid of cops. They want cops to do their jobs, correctly and appropriately. NYC Liberal Dec 2014 #49

I don't want to get rid of the institution, I want to remove the people who exploit it. 951-Riverside Dec 2014 #50

Gunz BainsBane Dec 2014 #51

The point of the thread was we might miss police but the reason we would is we are armed to the randys1 Dec 2014 #52

Exactly, we cant solve our EXTREMELY serious police problem until we remove THEIR excuse randys1 Dec 2014 #58

I'll be selling pounds of weed on the street. Hookers, pimps and johns will be happy too. L0oniX Dec 2014 #57