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>>mnm1+(OP)
Is there ever an instance of power being taken away from armed groups like police or military, in any country? I think it's very easy to grant power, and very hard to revoke. Also, what happens if the police departments refuse to accept the decision. I am not kidding, I read that there was a strike by San Francisco police in 1975 where the police refused to follow court orders and declared them "illegal".

>>enitih+0z
> s there ever an instance of power being taken away from armed groups like police or military, in any country?

I struggle to understand this. Isn't this what an election does? One administration controls the military, then another one does. So... the US, every 4 years?

I feel like this comment romanticize "power" in a common (yet, to me, very odd) way. We take power away from police officers all the time: "desk duty". As a group, we give power to the national guard ("mobilize") and take it away ("demobilize") all the time. I understand that police have a lot of political will behind them, but why is this problem all of a sudden a fundamental dynamic of power rather than a policy choice we as society continue to make?