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Behind the Police: How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier

Behind the Bastards

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The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Police Killings of Non Whites

Professor rob gilzo is a professor of economics at the university of victoria. His research shows that access to collective bargaining drives a modest decline in policy employment and increase in compensation, with no meaningful impacts on total crime or violent crime. What does change? We find a substantial increase in police ings of civilians over the medium to long run. The overwhelming majority of these added deaths are non white people. Other research has consistently borne out similar conclusions. A two thousand 18 university of oxford study of the hundred largest American cities found that protections and police contracts were directly and positively correlated with police violence against citizens.

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