Episode 5
How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier
Behind the Police · Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
June 30, 20201h 36mExplicit
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Show Notes
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.)
FOOTNOTES:
- The History of Policing in the United States
- Study finds misconduct spreads among police officers like contagion
- The End of Policing
- How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts
- The unjust power of police unions
- How Police Unions Enable and Conceal Abuses of Power
- Minneapolis Police Union President Allegedly Wore a “White Power Patch” and Made Racist Remarks
- Police chiefs are often forced to put officers fired for misconduct back on the streets
- How a 50-year-old study was misconstrued to create destructive broken-windows policing
- In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’
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