@grumpybozo@toad.socialPig unions are a unifying structure of America's Freikorps. Just as the dismantling of the Wehrmacht left a whole lot of trained thugs with nothing to do in Germany, our falling crime rates have left cops in a similar position of idleness, except that they mostly still have jobs where they can create their own work. https://
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThis is the perfect expression of a theme that never shows up in mass media:
Police are running out of legitimate work and are willing to invent new work solely to keep their jobs.
Crime rates have dropped precipitously over the past few decades, with some spikes around the financial crisis and pandemic. In a sane society, we would have also been reducing police budgets and headcounts
(See also: #Freikorps
