Cops are the armed enforcers of capitalism and thus have all manner of special protections and privileges
Cops do somepublic service work (bourgeois democracy is not totally unresponsive to the popular demand for that)
Cops have many of the same workplace issues as anyone else punching a timecard, even if how these issues present and get resolved is shaped heavily by (1)
yeah its very confused to exclude cops from the category 'worker', but eliding the context of what that work does is extremely myopic. the guys who design layoffs and labor discipline are workers, the people who police & manage workers are very often workers, and the actual police are workers.
that not all workers do pro-social work is not that huge of a hump to get over but white radlibs seem to get intensely hung up on it wrt cops & troops
To be fair he's right with his second comment, cops are working class traitors and not bourgeoisie
The right take here is:
yeah its very confused to exclude cops from the category 'worker', but eliding the context of what that work does is extremely myopic. the guys who design layoffs and labor discipline are workers, the people who police & manage workers are very often workers, and the actual police are workers.
that not all workers do pro-social work is not that huge of a hump to get over but white radlibs seem to get intensely hung up on it wrt cops & troops