Why Are Taxpayers Footing the Bill for Full-Time Police Union Employees?
No one should be forced to pay for officers who spend their days opposing policing reform and defending bad cops.
No one should be forced to pay for officers who spend their days opposing policing reform and defending bad cops.
As policy makers consider ways to reduce some of these shocking use-of-force incidents, they need to evaluate the role of unions in protecting overly aggressive officers.
Hold agencies and regulators accountable for outcomes, not compliance.
Police unions exist to protect cops at the expense of the public.
After George Floyd’s death, the city will bring in outside advisers to recommend changes to make policing more transparent and accountable.
Sometimes a "few bad apples" is systemic rot.
Union leaders show very little interest in considering collective bargaining’s role in protecting bad cops.
Over and over again, unions have defended bad policing and bad police. It’s time for them to go.
The available evidence suggests that police unions are a major obstacle to holding rogue police officers accountable.
Are we seeing a tipping point where police begin to grasp why the public is so outraged?
Malcolm Jenkins brought the data, but the Fraternal Order of Police prefer to bully him into shutting up.
In a speech to police, Barr called for citizens to shut up and do what officers tell them to.
Mike Riggs talks with Illinois Policy Institute's Adam Schuster about how to fix the state's pension debt crisis.
Bill de Blasio is running for president, and police unions are chasing him.
The chief and the union square off over who arranged what was likely an illegal search.
After the Janus ruling, AFSCME lost 98 percent of its agency fee-paying members, while the SEIU lost 94 percent.
Thank the police union.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
A newly passed police transparency bill is under attack across the state. The latest tactic: insisting it's not retroactive.
Federal shutdown politics leads to really bad journalism about exactly two meals.
A heavily abused program breaks the limits of what the IRS allows, leaving taxpayers even further on the hook.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
Alex Villanueva openly wants to get rid of constitutional policing advisors and to conceal names of bad deputies from prosecutors.
They say it's about due process. Is it really about all that sweet overtime money?
Will your state pay what its politicians promised? Almost certainly not.
But wait, it's even worse than that.
It was the end of the world...until it wasn't.
The Supreme Court says they can't forcibly collect dues from workers unwilling to pay them, but several unions don't seem to get it.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
Thanks to California's union-backed secrecy laws, prosecutors and defenders alike don't know about police misconduct.
After Janus ruling, state lawmaker in New York wants to include collective bargaining costs in state union contracts.
Today's Supreme Court ruling is a win for freedom of association and free speech, but don't expect it to change statehouse politics overnight.
A landmark victory for workers' rights will have major ramifications for the future of public sector unions.
The city's leftists are becoming increasingly unhinged in the face of broad resistance to a tax on hours worked.
The union's sock-puppet account was discovered yesterday and has since been deleted.
California unions and their allied politicians need to learn to respect the rights of California's government workers.
Mandatory fees are an assault on free association.
School resource officer Scot Peterson didn't pay his dues. To unions, that's what matters.
On today's podcast: Mona Charen gets booed, the gun control debate reignites, public sector unions suck, and Olympic curling is surprisingly awesome.
Janus v. AFSCME could end mandatory union dues payment. Counter-intuitively, it might strengthen the labor movement.
The Supreme Court hears a case that might crush government unions. The unions are upset. Stossel debates a union official.
Would extend "right to work" principles to government employment.
Meet the LAPD couple who made a cool $2 million off the city while hanging out at their condo in Cabo San Lucas.
The measure would also require officers to render first aid directly after shootings and undergo new training.
Can public sector unions force recalcitrant workers to pay dues, or does that violate the First Amendment?
In scores of secret settlements, local governments have sought to hide cops' crimes and brutality.
Some cops are livid, the New York Post reports.
New research seems to show adverse consequences from allowing collective bargaining for teachers and cops
Suing to prevent such releases.