What makes you think that the union model is the common model in the United States?
Deputy Sheriffs work at the pleasure of the elected Sheriff in the overwhelming majority of the country. In many other states unions are prohibited from collective bargaining. In others, police officers are at-will employees and striking is illegal.
I’m not a fan of unions, but the reality is, what you think of when you see the NYPD or the LAPD (for that matter the same applies to firefighters and other public employees) is vastly different than than the reality that exists around the nation.
Why do you let the media dictate what police work is like around the nation, when it bares no resemblance to reality?
Well, as long as you can bring yourself to tolerate the taxpayers and voters discussing these government employees and union members, all is good.
This is a constructive thread, and the facts need to reach the public if conservatives are going to defeat the “commies and hippies” running our cities and government unions.