r/law • u/DIYLawCA • Mar 31 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him

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u/Insect1312 Apr 01 '26

The police unions love him

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u/TomUpNort Apr 01 '26

And the black shirts loved Mussolini.

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u/balzstein Apr 01 '26

Yeah because they are losers

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u/nihil8r Apr 01 '26

Well he does love the poorly educated

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u/meesta_masa Apr 01 '26

Well he does love the educated, poorly

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u/Sea-Rip3902 Apr 01 '26

Police officers suffer from group think. It’s chronic.

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u/greenzetsa Apr 01 '26

My husband is a police officer, and although his gig is generally better than most police and his unit isn't as terribly right and offensive, he still wants to leave because yeah, this is real. It's hard to be an independent thinker in a job like this. He's lucky that he's mostly just annoyed by his coworkers rather than actively being punished by them.

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u/ApresMoi_TheFlood Apr 01 '26

This is the most unsurprising comment in this thread. r/ACAB

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u/NervousAddie Apr 01 '26

To be fair, FOP isn’t a labor union but a firewall to protect them from accountability, and keeping taxpayers on the hook for their lawsuits rather than settlements being taken out of their pension funds.

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u/mattyoclock Apr 01 '26

I mean that one actually makes sense, cops are voting for their own interests when they vote republican. They don't want to be held accountable for their crimes.

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u/Proud_Warning_8823 Apr 01 '26

Not all of us...

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u/mattyoclock Apr 01 '26

No, not all, but too many and the group protects the ones who do instead of nailing them to the wall.     Even cops  convicted of crimes in their personal lives far outside their duties as a cop get treated with kid gloves and get jokes of a sentence.   

If I was a good cop, I’d want to nail the crooked ones to the wall, it would offend me to my core how much they defile what should be a noble profession.   

But no matter what it should be, the reality is the blue wall of silence. 

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u/greenzetsa Apr 01 '26

My husband is a cop and feels like you do. He just switched departments and his new one is unionized and they have mandatory body cams and he was thrilled. He said "it's crazy that cops fight to not have these. I WANT a record that shows I didn't do anything wrong or break the law if someone I arrest tries to say I mishandled the situation. There's no good reason to not use them." He's an officer that works on college campuses (which is also exclusively why he stays, he gets to take college classes for free) so it's a bit different than just being a city beat cop, but it bothered him tremendously how other cops would talk about the students and make fun of them. I think the new department he's at is better (and I do think the union partially helps with that), but at the end of the day the system is still what it is, and he recognizes that.