A grotesque irony of this era is that even as most unions are a needed force for more worker/progressive power, far too many police unions remain retrograde repressive enforcers of white supremacy: nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/…
Also: cops should be incentivized to live in the city that they patrol, or penalized for not. No more Simi Valley bullshit.
Again and again we see police union leadership rises from the worst of the ranks and protects same.
Fixing this should be priority #1 of cities, the unions themselves, and rank and file officers.
Fixing this should be priority #1 of cities, the unions themselves, and rank and file officers.
NYC, SF, MPLS all have notably terrible police union leadership.
If you want to understand and hopefully influence police union contracts—including use of force and implicit bias training—start here: checkthepolice.org/#project
Here is the Mpls police Union going around the back of the department to provide bullshit “warrior” training found to produce deadly encounters
We wrote a piece that helped get this “warrior” training OFFICIALLY banned by Mpls PD; the union offered it to members anyway motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
"Lt. Bob Kroll, the head of the union, was accused in Chief Arradondo’s lawsuit of calling a black congressman who was Muslim a “terrorist” and of wearing a motorcycle jacket with a badge that said “white power.” nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/…
Here's the head of the Mpls police union. Shirt sort of says it all: startribune.com/amid-attention… 
