Labor unions today: "we'll help you organize and take the legal steps to get fair treatment."
Labor unions in 1912: "take this rifle. If your boss doesn't comply with our demands, shoot him and blow up his mansion."
One of these two approaches gets immediate results.
The cop "union" is not an actual union because cops are not actual workers. The pig "union" is just a group of fascists who haven't been mowed down yet.
It's a thin line, as they're exposed to all the same neoliberal undercurrents as the rest of us. Cop unions are simply the organizations that survived from an era when public sector unionization was the norm. And they've been the most difficult to dissolve because they are so vital to the function of capitalism.
Neoliberals would love nothing more than to abolish unions and turn policing into another Gig Economy job. Then the water gets even more muddy.
I hope the neoliberals successfully do that to the pigs. A weakened state apparatus is useful for us.
It's weaker for individual cops. I don't know if it's meaningfully weaker for the capitalists.
To quote Jay Gould: "I Can Hire Half the Working Class To Fight the Other Half"
Hardly a victory for Leftism if NextDoor starts farming out the job of state-sanctioned violence to insecure racist middle-class suburbanites.