@jbouie @lionel_trolling this is really the crux. a basic disconnect over who is in charge of defining the mission of policing, who decides what the job is and whether police and their unions are meaningfully subordinate to political authority. It's sort of clarifying if we imagined the military ...
@jbouie @lionel_trolling 2/ in a comparable way, with a powerful union that was a big player in civilian politics, various sorts of slowdowns in response to efforts to enforce accountability, open resistance to civilian decisions about what nat sec policy shld be.
@jbouie @lionel_trolling 3/ People can point to various ways in which the US military does operate like this. The professional military builds deep relationships on capitol hill. Major weapons programs are spread out over many or all states to anchor political support. All true. But ...
@jbouie @lionel_trolling 4/ it's just not remotely comparable. For obvious and very profound reasons there's a strong tradition, inculcated deeply in decades officer training about military subordination to civilian authority. It's really different. And when you think about the mil/civilian ...
@jbouie @lionel_trolling 5/ it starts to become clear how out of whack it often is in policing.
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