"Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar missed chance to prosecute Minneapolis cop now at center of George Floyd death." via @WashTimes
I wish I could say I'm surprised. Police unions/assoc. often have a powerful role... washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/… /1 #floydgeorge
...in electing city council members and DAs who have oversight on the local police. This powerful role via endorsements, donations, and volunteer labor, often leads to less training and oversight than needed... /2
...to ensure the police conduct their duties in a professional manner, respectful of everyone's rights. The idea of government unions needs to be revisited, especially for law enforcement - that's the whole point of civil service protections. /3
Firing police officers that can't do a very difficult job - a job whose consequences involve life and death decisions - should not be made more difficult by powerful police unions. The terrible damage a poor police officer causes... /4
...to individual life and liberty and society at large is too great to risk protecting substandard officers. I can't imagine if the military was unionized (as has been proposed before). /5
If the military, with life and death decisions overseas and with fellow service members, can separate enlisted members or officers for subpar performance without the interference of a union... /6
...why should police forces, with life and death decisions made over U.S. citizens be held to a lower standard? The consequences for failure are tremendous, not just with an individual life, but also for the entire nation. /End
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