• mrbubblesort@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Adams also proudly stated the cost-effectiveness of the robocop as compared to a human transit cop: The city is leasing the robot for $9 an hour.

    “This is a good investment of taxpayer dollars,” he said. “This is below minimum wage, no bathroom breaks, no meal breaks.”

    I’m genuinely surprised the union is ok with this.

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      That’s because cop “unions” aren’t real unions.

      Real unions protect the employment of all their members while fighting for better wages and working conditions.

      Cop “unions” defend criminal cops from the consequences of their actions, fight for impunity for all cop killers (killers who are cops) and lobby the government to fund those heinous activities.

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          Both work. A cop killer can be killer of cops or a killer who happens to also be a cop. I like it over killer cop for two reasons

          1. it implies that the killer part is the essence and the cop part is external to that

          2. it replaces a term meant to set apart a category of killers for being worse because they kill cops (as if “blue lives matter” more than all others) with the many times more common killer that’s worse for being a cop.