PubSecAlliance is a growing online community of union and association leaders from groups representing sworn personnel in law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Canada and around the world. It is not a formal organization. There is no president or board of directors. Our mission is simply to provide a space for you to communicate with your colleagues about your most pressing concerns, while informing you about the issues that matter to you most.
Of all the groups and individuals bankrolling the aggressive effort to destroy collective bargaining rights of everyone working in the public sector including teachers, nurses, cops, firefighters, sanitation and parks, even people from the water department, there is wide agreement that David and Charles Koch are at the top of the list. It was Koch […]
Law enforcement unions and associations should get familiar with the data-driven strategy used by the 2012 Obama campaign that zeroed in on undecided voters in swing states and made a plan to reach them. The geniuses behind this effort have been lured from politics for the moment by big commercial interests who are desperate to […]
Most law enforcement officers look forward to receiving a pension, but it’s still important to save more for your retirement. A recent Employee Benefit Research Institute survey reported that 57% of U.S. workers have less than $25,000 in total household savings and investments excluding their homes set aside for retirement years. The survey also found […]
“Concerning pension ‘reform’ in Rhode Island” Elaine Magliaro, a guest blogger on Jonathan Yurley’s blog, says it all. Wall Street gorging on state employees pensions. Here’s some excerpts” There’s no prudent, disciplined investment program at work here—just a blatant Wall Street gorging, while simultaneously pruning state workers’ pension benefits. It’s no surprise that some of […]
Yes it hurts, but it’s over in 7 minutes An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal gives you 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall that combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes […]
Lt. Phillip Wise, of the Bethany Police Dept. was 21 miles northwest of Moore, Oklahoma when the devastating category tornado touched down this past May. The New York Times wrote about his heroic act that, “Wise pursued the tornado that flattened parts of this Oklahoma City suburb as if it were a perpetrator, trailing it […]
Here’s some good news on the pension fund front from California’s Marin County where the pension fund soared $225 million bringing assets to $1.7 billion. Pension officials had predicted a 7.5 percent return but a rising stock market made the increase more like 15 percent. It’s a story that shows how tied in public sector […]
There’s more to this story than meets the eye but the bottom line is the union was found to have violated the rights of its members and now must fork over $5 million back to those same members. Scary thing is if you Google “National Right to Work Foundation” on of the most prominent organizations […]
Watch this and tell me there’s any way cops can work over 20 years. Even that long is pushing it. Hats off to this Trooper who has to be the most patient and disciplined law enforcement officer on the planet. The problem with the driver who gets stopped? There’s millions more just like him. Just […]
There’s a lot we don’t know about social media. There’s even less we know about social media and its potential applications for law enforcement. But what we do know is that people love to hear about alleged bad guys beating up, stabbing or shooting other bad guys. People love that particular rubber-necking activity so much […]
When she’s trying to preserve her credibility as anything but a mouthpiece of the Tea Party governors like John Kasich and billionaires like the Walmart heirs and Rupert Murdoch, Michelle Rhee claims she supports collective bargaining rights. She claimed it while her StudentsFirst organization collaborated on Michigan bills limiting collective bargaining for teachers and lowering […]
Police culture changes much slower than the larger culture within which it operates. But as Bob Dylan once wrote, “The times they are a’ changing.” Traditionally police have perceived liberals and left-wingers to be more or less their ideological enemies. That dynamic has been in place for generations – for the most part cops don’t […]
Going four years without a pay raise was bad enough, but when city officials were going to give zeroes for the fifth straight years, members of the Nashville, Tennessee FOP decided they had had enough. Despite a drastic drop in crime, and a lot of reaching out to the Mayor, City Council, and community, the […]
Another day another controversy. Today’s kerfuffle involves a decision by the NFL to prohibit off-duty police officers attending games from carrying firearms. According to an article posted on The Blaze, the new NFL policy reportedly prohibits all law enforcement personnel from carrying their firearms into all NFL stadiums. Police in Cleveland, Ohio said they received […]
Mayor Eric Hogue in Wylie, Texas wrote this piece for his local newspaper. Think about sending something like this to your local paper. The City of Wylie and our neighbors are fortunate to have outstanding police departments. Over the past year, Wylie’s crime rate has dropped 13 percent, even though our city continues to be […]
Worries about post-traumatic stress have become a stock part of the media narrative surrounding tragedies like Boston and Newtown. And resilience is supposedly the best we can hope for in the face of adversity. But what if there’s a third option? Read the story of one mass shooting, and the surprising tug of post-traumatic growth.
The paid detail system in New Orleans is undergoing a complete reorganization. The move was prompted by years of misinformation and mischaracterization that the system suffered from “an aorta of corruption” and that it “tears at the fabric of the New Orleans Police Dept.” Today some of the harshest critics are saying that the problems […]
We all know Larry King as the host CNN’s “Larry King Live.” But here he is after an arrest in Miami on charges of grand larceny. Larry King was in debt allegedly because of an extravagant lifestyle. Strangely enough there is a connection here to the Kennedy Assassination, as the debt which prompted this arrest […]
A Phoenix police officer on vacation with his son in Hawaii, risked his own life and then some to rescue a young woman who was getting dragged out to sea by a powerful undertow. The Phoenix Police Department released this video. Phoenix Officer Guillermo Arrubla who also served with the NYPD, and his 19-year-old son […]
The 1996 Olympics in Atlanta were rocked by a bomb that killed one and injured more than 100. In the rush to find the perpetrator, one man became a target. There was only one problem. He was innocent. Here’s a documentary about Richard Jewell and the missteps by law enforcement and irresponsible reporting (similar to […]
City manager is proud city will honor its commitments to its employees. Here’s a hero for our times. Bob Deis, the city manager of Stockton, California, is proud he put together a bankruptcy plan that avoids cuts in pensions promised to the city’s employees under contractual agreement. Insurers of the city’s bonds were adamant that […]
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Whoever said, “A few bad apples can bring the whole place down” knew what they were talking about. Here’s one story that certainly reinforces the that notion. According to The Boston Globe, 20 Massachuetts State Troopers are being investigated for theft of overtime pay. Reporters Mark Arsenault, Travis Andersen, and Shelley Murphy write: “In another black […]
When is Police “Use of Force” Justified?
It seems like every law enforcement agency is grappling with changes in use-of-force policies, which are too often implemented by people that are not familiar at all with the complicated, risky, and high-pressure world of law enforcement, especially when it comes to the use of deadly force. The press conference you are about to watch […]
FBI Will Not Investigate Detective’s Homicide
The FBI won’t be taking over an investigation into the homicide of a Baltimore city detective who was slain amid a corruption investigation. Detective Sean Suiter was shot in the head with his own weapon on Nov. 15, a day before he was to testify before a federal grand jury investigating wrongdoing by fellow officers […]
The Madison Police Department in Wisconsin is making some changes to its policies on the use of deadly force. According to an article in the Wisconsin State Journal, the changes come after several law suits against the city were successful with payouts in the millions. “When it comes to the rules our police officers are trained […]
Via the Chicago Tribune: On his first full day as president of Chicago’s largest police union, Officer Kevin Graham appeared at a news conference to address reporters seeking details of his plan for leading the embattled rank-and-file of the police force. With cameras and reporters ready at the Fraternal Order of Police lodge in the […]
No matter how you feel about Donald Trump, this bit from “Jimmy Kimmel Live” will leave you laughing.
Deputy Martha Lohnes of the Greenville County Sheriff’s Department in South Carolina has responded to some weird 911 calls, but this one takes the cake. Aaliyah Ryan is just two years old. But she knew enough to call 911 when she was having a problem. The dispatcher told Deputy Lohnes that it sounded like a […]
In this section we will bring you articles, videos and pictures that make it obvious who needs a union – we all do. When employees have the right to sit
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