Behind the Police: How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier

<p>If you thought police were deadly up till this point, wait until you hear about what unionization did to the U.S. police (hint: it got a hell of a lot of the rest of us killed.)</p><p><strong>FOOTNOTES:</strong></p><ol> <li><a href="https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united-states-part-4">The History of Policing in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/police-misconduct-peer-effects/">Study finds misconduct spreads among police officers like contagion</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01I85OOZA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1">The End of Policing </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapolis-kroll.html">How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts</a></li> <li><a href="https://theweek.com/articles/860002/unjust-power-police-unions">The unjust power of police unions</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-police-union-power-helped-increase-abuses">How Police Unions Enable and Conceal Abuses of Power</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/05/minneapolis-police-union-president-kroll-george-floyd-racism/">Minneapolis Police Union President Allegedly Wore a “White Power Patch” and Made Racist Remarks</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/police-fired-rehired/">Police chiefs are often forced to put officers fired for misconduct back on the streets</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/27/how-year-old-study-was-misconstrued-create-destructive-broken-windows-policing/">How a 50-year-old study was misconstrued to create destructive broken-windows policing</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html">In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’</a></li> </ol><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href