It helps that they have a stupidly overpowered union.

Their role in society is very different from workers. They protect the interests of capitalists. As such, they're allowed to have solidarity, because it does not affect the ruling class negatively. Not so for the proletariat.

The Police Union is the only union the Right likes.

I disagree with this take, so take your upvote. I’m all for unions, and I agree that more unions would help improve the world for more people. But if the police unions teach us anything, it’s the dangers of an overly powerful union.

Am I in the right community? How is this an unpopular opinion?

How is it even an opinion??

thats an unacceptable level of solidarity. Its like people who would hide their insane family member who likes to dismember people.

It's a product of their inherent selfishness and sociopathy. They don't care about others, they care about themselves and they want to be protected when they inevitably rape and/or murder someone. Same thing happens in powerful circles in the West (remember Epstein and everyone before him?). This wouldn't work for society, we actually need people who "love their neighbour as much as they love themselves"... but we're at a high point for vanity and self-centeredness so it's gonna take at least a couple hundred years in the West to veer into that direction, probably.

My dad was part of the police union as part of the DoC of our city, whenever we would discuss unionization efforts elsewhere he would go all against the idea, and then defend his union status, but then again without hypocrisy my dad probably wouldn't have much at all, and being almost 70, he'll never change, just another Fox News MAGA casualty.

The police are used to keep workers in line... That's why they get it easy.

It's not solidarity. It's that rulers and local leaders rely on police enforcement to keep the whole thing going.

Because they're a violent gang.

The bloods and the crips are pretty tight, too.

We have a massive, well funded and organized operation working 24/7 to keep us divided. It's purpose is to remove solidarity and it's doing a fantastic job at it. I don't know how to counter it :(

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"All police everywhere.."

One single exception is all it takes to debunk an absolute claim.

It is easy to gather in solidarity when A) You are literally trained in pack tactics, backing up your fellow officer, and the culture instills an us vs them mentality by default, B) the solidarity you have is specifically in self-preservation from consequences for violent crimes that would otherwise destroy your life, and C) you are in a position of authority that gives you protection, preference, deference, and priority in all legal matters.

You posted this to the wrong community (this is /c/UnpopularOpinion, not /c/PopularOpinion) but I'll take your bait:

If a police officer does something wrong. It does not matter what the evidence shows or what happens. All police everywhere stand firmly together and protect their brethren.

This is a blatant lie and you know it, otherwise zero cops would ever be arrested.

That said, I agree with the spirit of your post in the sense that laborers typically have little to no solidarity, and police generally have at least a measurable degree of (often feigned) solidarity.

But people who suck at their jobs deserve to get fired, whether they're cops or not. Keeping them in that job just because they're "one of us" is irrational.

They kind of have to have solidarity because they are willing to die for their job. Every shift could be their last one.