gotten away with collective bargaining agreements that protect bad behavior, and fight most reform efforts. As outrage over unjust law enforcement tactics grows, it’s important to understand how police unions -- and the bargaining agreements they push -- prevent us from holding bad cops ...
Many who support giving officers the tools they need to do their jobs and keep communities safe also recognize that some police unions have a history of protecting bad cops. UNION MEMBERSHIP FALLS IN 2019 DESPITE GROWING APPROVAL "I think it becomes very convenient for politicians ... to simply...
Now don’t get me wrong, unions are not all bad. Not even police unions. They can help protect those officers in the event of false allegations and helping to protect pensions. But when you have some law enforcement officers making less than $11 an hour and having to work copious amount...
The Bad Cops: How Minneapolis protects its worst police officers until it’s too late (12-15-2020) - "The next thing Luis Garcia remembers is feeling excruciating pain as an unfamiliar voice commanded him to get up. He was placed back in the squad car, dizzy and his mouth so fu...
Public Cops a Raw Deal; Police Unions Says Tweed-Byron LAC Hampered by Lack of Resources
Floyd's death also put police unions under a microscope. A consensus quickly emerged, asserting that unions protect officers who behave poorly and impede reform that would improve policing and police-community relations. The central idea animating the new consensus is that police-union power has tra...
And public empolyee unions have indeed bought Democrat politicians, lock, stock, and barrel, including black Democrat politicians. If the black community thinks that police are killing black people, Democrat politicians are protecting the bad cops who do that killing. If black parents want vouchers...
This video from Occupy Boston, of protesters chanting “Who do you protect? Who do you serve?” is exactly right. Those are the questions we want cops asking each other in the privacy of their squad cars, and asking themselves late at night when they can’t sleep. We want them discussi...
Sherman judges that these values have weak- ened over time due to diversity within the police, the power of the police unions to defend individual officers, and the rise of investigative journalism, which has uncovered corruption in high places. Additionally, he points to the fact that police ...
Why does the Chicago Police Department protect its most dangerous cops and retaliate against officers who tell the truth?