Police Unions Criticism

The cluster focuses on debates about police unions, highlighting their role in protecting misconduct, blocking reforms, and wielding excessive power, often contrasting them with other unions.

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US SWE BAD ycombinator.com DeBlasio i.e chicagotribune.com NOT NHLPA GREAT unions police union officers cops public sector police officers members bad public

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no_wizard Dec 15, 2022 View on HN

The police don't have weak unions though. Evidence suggests otherwise, see my comment:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991186#33992777

morvita Jun 7, 2020 View on HN

I don't think making police unions illegal is the solution, unions play an important role in preventing the employer from taking advantage of employees. What we need to do is limit the scope of unions. Unions making sure their members have decent pay, benefits, safe working conditions, etc - GREAT! Unions protecting corrupt, abusive, dangerous members from facing punishment - BAD! This is true for any profession.

Der_Einzige Mar 28, 2020 View on HN

Maybe it's because police unions form a sizable chunk of those unions...

adgjlsfhk1 Apr 8, 2021 View on HN

Police unions are much worse than other public unions. If other public unions take illegal action, the police can arrest them. When the police union does something illegal, no one is going to do anything about it.

coronadisaster Jul 17, 2020 View on HN

Maybe the police union is responsible.

autoexec May 29, 2022 View on HN

Police unions don't prevent police from being held accountable. They don't have that authority. Police unions are another problem, and an important one, but we need the state to press charges and judges to sentence police who commit crimes at least as harshly as they would the rest of us. No union has the power to take a bad cop out of prison. The police didn't get this way on their own, so it's important that we aren't ignoring what's enabled them to continue like

1024core Apr 28, 2019 View on HN

Not really odd if you know about the power of the police unions.

renewiltord Jun 2, 2020 View on HN

We're in this situation because of police unions. Fuck any SWE union. It'll be full of xenophobic crackpots.

autoexec Oct 17, 2023 View on HN

Police need unions too, for the same reasons everyone else does. Police deserve pay increases that keep pace with the rising cost of living, limits on how many hours or days they can be forced to work without rest, time off for training, sick time, family leave, workplace safety etc.The problem isn't that police have unions, it's that police are allowed to police themselves. If we take that ability away, police unions won't have any say in how officers are investigated or disci

dsfyu404ed Jun 30, 2017 View on HN

Don't forget the police union.