Cisairse wrote:Hakons wrote:
As politicians, governors, and police chiefs turn on them, increasingly with threats to disband police unions or reduce funding (which is mostly wages), it becomes clear police officers have a class interest. They should go on strike if management continues to be so hostile. This is labor politics.
Sure, but the police are not members of the proletariat. They, in any bourgeois dictatorship, are the enforcer arm of the bourgeois apparatus which keeps classes stratified. The most effective way for a police officer to reduce the power and influence of the bourgeois is to resign. This is mostly unique among occupations.
Rationalize your philosophy if your prefer, but I don’t think this is going to help your movement. Police officers the country over are feeling pressure from management. Corporate America is strongly backing BLM initiatives. I don’t think your anti-police stance, which is shared by large swaths of the upper class, exactly makes you hand in hand with the working class.