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Thanks. Also, check out the book The Police Rebellion by William Bopp, cited in that article. It goes through the rise of police unions and discusses various police strikes as well as the NYPD revolt against a civilian review board in the 60s, probably the most successful and explicit foray of a police union into official city politics. It is a bit old, but it is short and very interesting. You will find plenty to chew on in there. The issue of disgruntled cops seems to have been a recognized social problem in the late seventies, in the immediate post civil rights era. This issue has not been discussed at length in the same way for a few decades, even though it was discussed widely then. It seems that the rise of police unions, with an increase in wages and status to go along with it, seems to have resolved the issue (for the time anyway). Certainly, the decline of the civil rights movement probably made it less immediate, as the rise of a new movement makes it more immediate. Also, not sure if anybody mentioned it, but there is an ongoing scandal in Costa Mesa, CA around cops trying to setup politicians with dirty DUIs and other subterfuge: http://www.latimes.com/local/orangecounty/la-me-1217-private-eyes-20141217-story.html There was also a case of the Berkeley police sending a cop to a reporters house in the middle of the night trying to get him to change a story a few years ago: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20143269/berkeley-police-chiefs-decision-send-sergeant-reporters-home. The Berkeley police blamed an Occupy march from Oakland to Berkeley for their short response time when a man was beat to death and did not like how the reported described their response. This not explicitly about city hall politics, but it is an act of political intimidation against a private citizen and journalist purely for political gain. Scott On Dec 22, 2014 12:31 PM, "Andrew Pollack" <acpolla...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks everyone for the examples, keep 'em coming > re Oakland: thanks, Scott, lots of details and analysis to chew over. And > I like the fact that you can walk and chew gum at the same time, i.e. to > discuss the potential semiautonomy of the police without letting that > bourgeois jackass Quan off the hook. > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Scott J. via Marxism < > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > >> ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** >> #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >> #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. >> #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. >> ***************************************************************** >> >> Not as serious as the current NYPD revolt, but there are similarities in a >> police force throwing the mayor under the bus. This article also looks >> much >> deeper at how the police operate as an independent political institution, >> as a self serving bureaucracy, primarily to the benefit of its staff and >> its leadership, not unlike any government bureaucracy. The police are a >> permanent institution, unlike politicians who come and go, and are >> therefore often more powerful than City Hall. >> >> http://libcom.org/library/who-gives-orders-oakland-police-city-hall-occupy >> _________________________________________________________ >> Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm >> Set your options at: >> http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com >> > > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
