THE NATIONWIDE backlash against police abuses has already had one salutary effect: It has led to greater awareness of the role played by labor unions in protecting bad cops. In the wake of George Floyd's death, calls to reform the powerful police unions have been expressed across the political spectrum.
But the only way to "reform" police unions is to abolish them altogether and end collective bargaining for public-safety employees.
Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd, is a textbook illustration of how unionized police departments shelter cops known to be incompetent or dangerous. Chauvin had been the subject of at least 18 complaints of misconduct over the years, without ever facing any serious discipline. That was typical for Minneapolis — according to The Wall Street Journal, of 2,600 misconduct complaints filed since 2012 with the city's Office of Police Conduct Review, only 12 have resulted in discipline.
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9 comments:
Bad apples are protected, and not just with police.
Get rid of the teachers union before any. Look at all the wasted money going to our school's?? Our kids can't even read at 5th grade level.
AMEN! The problem has been with what the Unions are FORCING government to accept. Now that things have boiled over, where is all the support for the cops from their unions? There isn't any.
We need to get rid of the cops all of them. This country has way to many cops and to many police departments. We got city, county, state, federal, national, homeland, travel, police it is like Nazi germany!
police unions are not actual unions....abolish them and stop bleeding the taxpayers...
Eliminate ALL unions.
6:40, your kidding right? So we get rid of all the cop I mean all of them. Then the dems take ours guns who are you going to call when you help? (map)
6:40 ....No, they'll not take any true patriots guns...unless they're prying them from our dead hands!
True but in MD not DE. Count how many Annapolis has.
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