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How Cities Lost Control of Police Discipline (Published 2020)
In the chaos of 1960s Detroit, a fledgling police union laid the groundwork for a system that, to this day, constrains discipline for officers accused of misconduct.
www.nytimes.com
Shocking and damning. Police unions began in the 1960's and, over time, won more and more ability to protect officers from being disciplined. As the saying goes "a bad apple spoils the bunch" - and if you can't fire the bad apple....well, don't be surprised at what follows.
We need an overhaul of policing in this country. Desperately. Now.