An audit has uncovered a massive scandal in Connecticut, where hundreds of troopers manipulated the state’s racial-profiling database through fraudulent citations

    • Ignisnex
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      101 year ago

      My union kicks ass, and always has my back. Blanket statements are useless my dude.

      That said, POLICE unions are a bit of a special case. They seem to be… Parasitic to society.

      • @[email protected]
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        -101 year ago

        Unions have long outlived their usefulness in the US. In other parts of the world, unions are still very important and seem to be able to operate without turning into pure corrupt bullshit. In the US? Not so much. With money comes corruption and we can’t seem to get things right here. Either we have corporate bullshit or union bullshit and neither of them are good for workers or the country as a whole.

    • Ragnell
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      71 year ago

      A union of guys who are paid to break up protests and strikes doesn’t really count as a union, especially when they have guns but most of the elected officials don’t.

      • @[email protected]
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        -81 year ago

        It’s a union - and an extremely powerful one at that. You can wish and hope all you want that it isn’t, but it is and shows just the kind of corruption and bullshit unions can be.

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          A union of seamstresses is not going to be able to hold the city hostage. Hell, even when Hoffa was running the teamsters–The most infamous example of union corruption in history–he couldn’t get a clause in the contract where a guy who killed a guy on the job got to keep his job.

          The FOP is not indicative of unions in general.