U.S. mayors identify police unions as an obstacle to reform

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The U.S. Conference of Mayors took direct aim at police unions, saying the collective bargaining agreements they negotiate are an obstacle to police reform and to regaining public trust

That finding in a report could escalate tensions in the national debate over police use of force and racial inequality that burst into nationwide street protests following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

“We’re at the inflection point, and unions need to be part of the solution,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, chair of the conference’s working group on police reform and racial justice, told a news conference. “Police cannot be effective, they cannot do their job, if they do not have the community on their side.”

Too many collective bargaining agreements enable investigations to be covered up or delayed, or the purging of disciplinary records, Lightfoot said.

 

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This mayor should be recalled for dereliction of duty. She was sworn in to protect the people not defund the very entity that is sworn to uphold the peace. Reform yes, by policy but removing the police will make the existing crime rate explode. And yes she resembles beetlejuice

Trump 2020

The Police need to be PROTECTED too. Whoever violates the Law head to Court to obtain remedy. Destroying cities & the Economy is NOT America's way to resolve disputes. It may be the Failed Politicians' Way.

It’s actually the mayors who have lost the public trust .

Yes. Outlaw all unions. All of them. Everywhere.

Lori Beetlejuice Lightfoot should resign immediately. She's a distaster. She's hurricane Katrina to chicago

Insert “teachers union”

The Unions that protect bad cops? No way.

BS! Law enforcement is the backbone of the community!

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