Boston Police Strike Was One Term Paper

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For example, the police response to Occupy movement was widely viewed as disproportional and unnecessarily violent, and it is precisely leftist movements like Occupy that the police would need in order for a strike to be successful.

However, even if a contemporary strike were not successful, it seems likely that it would not end with the police being fired, but rather with nominal concessions on the part of the city or state. Police officers have secured a place of respect in American society not granted to other professions, and thus it seems difficult to imagine a governor, commissioner, or mayor being able to find much public support for firing an entire department a la the Boston police strike or Reagan's firing of air traffic controllers.
Instead, it seems likely that cities and states would call on the National Guard or private security contractors to make up for striking police, and then grant whatever minimum was necessary in order to end the strike. Furthermore, because so many cities are struggling with budgetary issues, it would be easy enough for the leadership to paint striking police as overly greedy, thus forcing the striking officers into agreeing with consolations that they might have rejected in more prosperous times......

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