This is an idea I’ve had for a long time, one that popped up again with the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. Other people have written about this in more detail recently (among others, see here), but it’s not just those who could be written off as anti-union right wingers anymore. The Financial Times had a front-page story on the problem of police unions yesterday.1
Among the purposes of unions are to protect the jobs of their members and to get them as much money as possible. Part of the former is to make it hard to fire union members. Which in the case of police unions means making it hard to fire police officers. I’m all for police officers not being fired unfairly, but the way it seems to be working in too many cases these days, is that it is just too hard to fire police officers at all. There are police officers that need to be fired, and police unions are making it too hard to do so.
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