There is something amazingly absent in the logic of that argument. I’m still torn on whether it is the logic, or the lack of an actual argument.
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It seems like the problem here is treating a wide variety of what ought to be criminal behavior as though it is merely a labor dispute.
Rules like “No assaulting detainees” and “Please keep perjury to a minimum” shouldn’t need to be firing offenses; they should just be covered under the “Well, his attendance record was atrocious after he went to jail; so we fired him” condition.
Even if the internal disciplinary system were actually really tough and scary; you’d still have a situation where the harshest punishment involves having to find another job; which is clearly insufficient given the room for(and demonstrated magnitude of) abuse.
We don’t generally expect workplace punishments to serve as a substitute for criminal sanctions; and it seems particularly irresponsible to do so in this case.
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Doesn’t make any difference whether the opposition is Republican, or Libertarian, or Socialist, or Whig, or the Prohibition party.
When the administration in power knows that it has 0.0001 percent chance of ever being turned out, change will not happen, period.
They have better breezes; definitely better tennis teams, if you practice at 4AM, and just about everyone could everything the hell out of a bagel. I wonder if Kiva’s done some good up there.
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yeah, that’s like it. Condensation of graphene foliage cover from one-pot meth stank.
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You’re naive if you think that Chicago (and the democratic party) is the only problem here.
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Spoiler alert… it’s not a Chicago only problem.
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Never said it was. Not having a competitive election for what, 90 years, does not help though.
A third party opposed to police violence and willing to take on the police union over that issue would not hurt.
In places like this it is the party primaries that can be contested, at least sometimes, as neither the democratic nor the republican are monolithic parties. The situation in the USSR was, I would say, slightly different.
Edit: Since 1999, Mayor elections in Chicago are non-partisan, so there are no single-party primaries, but there is a run-off election when no candidate garners 50% of the vote.
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The feds are often worse.
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No, but I imagine they might get hurt. By the police.
Is that an indictment of democracy itself, or common victim blaming? Are YOU here to help, though?
A third party might help, or possibly a time machine, or an influence-ray. Got plans for any of those?
Maybe this is an odd idea, but shouldn’t discipline of bad cops be done by the courts and shouldn’t any appeal to such discipline be done in the same courts?
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Surely not our “let’s destroy civil rights movements” feds, too!? (/s)
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