This is such an interesting situation for conservatives. If you’re like me, you’ve railed plenty against the evils of unions especially public unions such as the ones for teachers. We know that these unions do more harm than good and their only interest perpetuate their own causes and to so partly by throwing their money around to support politicians who will in turn do their biding.
But we seem to have a blind spot to police and fire unions even though they’re often no better. Yes, we all support cops and want them to do well. But these unions are often the reason so many bad and incompetent cops remain on the payroll (my opinion).
Forget defunding police. That’s a non-starter fomented by anarchists and idiots. But we should seriously support breaking up police unions. So if privatization is the best way forward to achieve that, count me in.
Unions firstly protect police from malicious prosecution, which they obviously need. None of us would enjoy being summarily fired on a crank charge of wrongdoing. As for “bad” cops, they’re are already civilian review boards who look into these cases. My question is what are they doing about bad cops? What, more importantly, is the civilian government of these PD’s NOT doing that allows these cops to stay on the payroll?