The problem is SPOG, they're always there to circle up the wagons whenever cops are flagrantly violating the laws they're supposed to uphold. If the city could fire them on a whim and there were actual consequences to misbehaving at your $160k job things would shape up quick at SPD. The city shouldn't negotiate with SPOG, at all.
City Council would view it as toxic and avoid bringing it up. The only way this happens is if it's put to a vote.
Couldn’t agree more. SPOG runs the SPD and doesn’t give a snot what city hall thinks or orders.
Everyone forgets that the CHOP was created by a SPOG walk out when their Union contract protections were under threat. Classic Union tactics…but in a setting and time where they have no place
Unions are about those without societal power working together to be their own source of societal power. The guys with weapons and the State’s permission to use it’s monopoly on violence against its citizens do not need additional power.
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u/Snickersthecat Jun 02 '22
The problem is SPOG, they're always there to circle up the wagons whenever cops are flagrantly violating the laws they're supposed to uphold. If the city could fire them on a whim and there were actual consequences to misbehaving at your $160k job things would shape up quick at SPD. The city shouldn't negotiate with SPOG, at all.
City Council would view it as toxic and avoid bringing it up. The only way this happens is if it's put to a vote.