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.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio brushed aside scathing comments from the NYPD officers’ and sergeants’ union leaders who slammed officials for not supporting cops and the medical examiner’s office for ruling the death of Eric Garner a homicide. He called the rhetoric par for the course. “Union leaders will say what union leaders […]
In California, the Berkeley police union filed a lawsuit against the city for allegedly failing to conduct an investigation after confidential information about an in-custody death last year was leaked to the UC Berkeley student newspaper. In May, the Daily Californian newspaper published an extensive news story detailing confidential information about the Berkeley Police Review […]
In Massachusetts, the union representing supervisors at the Amherst Police Department wants increased staffing to ensure the safety of residents and claims that town administrators have ignored the request. Amherst Police Supervisors Union President Sgt. Gabriel Ting said the union “has serious concerns we choose to share with the community.” He added, “For several years, […]
Only two days after Mayor Ivy Taylor took the oath of office, the San Antonio Police Officer Association released a 4 minute video to its rank and file. Union President Mike Helle is the only person to appear in the video. He said union dues are being increased to fund the campaign after the City […]
In Louisiana, a public feud between the Monroe Police Union and Chief Quentin Holmes boiled over when Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo said the department was riddled with discipline problems, racism and back-biting while digging in with his support for the police chief. Mayo and Holmes were responding to the union’s Monday vote of no confidence […]
Charles Koch is one of the world’s richest people. His daddy made his money in Stalinist Russia helping the reds become one of the world’s dominant oil suppliers. Charles Koch is worth more than $40 billion dollars. And because he’s so rich and powerful, Chuck recently took the time to write, or have his staff […]
One public service that people really like and count on is the post office – which literally delivers for us. Antigovernment ideologues and privatization dogmatists, however, hate the very word “public,” and they’ve long sought to demonize the U.S. Postal Service, undercut its popular support and, finally, dismantle it. Their main line of attack has […]
I just read the latest story on PubSec – “Pension Madness, No Experience” about CalPERS making a $705 million dollar investment in a private equity fund. I don’t think that vilifying PERS is in our best interest. They are actually our strongest partner in fighting those who want to take our pensions away from us. […]
Another law enforcement association commissioned a morale survey indicating that pretty much everyone hates their job. It’s one of those things you can always count on – like death taxes and disease-related news stories in the slow news month of August. In Dallas, 80 percent of cops responding to a survey from the Dallas Police […]
Chris Christie, along with a sorry assemblage of other hustlers, wants to be the next president of the United States, according to Salon. Governor Tubby McBully is currently selling his wares to rubes in Iowa and New Hampshire as he starts polishing his “reformer” image for the big dance. Christie can’t talk to voters about […]
Here’s the latest horror story about a cop screwing up on Facebook. Sgt. Rob Douglas was on paid leave Monday after posting a rant on his personal Facebook page about “useless turd bags” with “unclean bodies” and mouths “full of bling” whom he encountered on the first of the month in a local grocery store. […]
In Missouri, the Springfield Police Officers Association is calling the shortage of officers there an emergency. It says the police department is so short staffed there aren’t enough officers to keep up with the City’s crime. Monday, the fight between the Police Union and the City Council came to a head leaving both parties at […]
Rev. Al Sharpton, a commentator on MSNBC and local gadfly, slammed Patrick Lynch, president of the NYPD PBA, for saying the man who taped the fatal Eric Garner arrest was demonizing the good work of police officers. “I do think that this will be the sickest logic that I ever heard,” Sharpton said. Earlier in […]
In Ventura, California recently, a judge has ordered an initiative that would phase out the county pension system off the November ballot. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Kent Kellegrew found the measure proposed by leaders of the Ventura County Taxpayers Association could not legally be used to withdraw from a statewide retirement system the county […]
In a recent survey Dallas cops say morale is at its lowest point ever. Ron Pinkston, the Dallas Police Association president, says the results caught even him off guard. According to a survey the DPA commissioned, 80 percent of the nearly 1300 members who responded to the online questionnaire rated the Dallas Police Department’s morale […]
The D.C. FOP has unveiled an online crime map on their website, meant to provide users with a new resource to monitor crime in city neighborhoods. The crime mapping technology is similar to a tool the Metropolitan Police Department already offers on their website, but information from the union’s mapping system can be broken down […]
This time the story is out of Ventura County in California where a controversial proposal to eliminate the current pension plan and switch for a 401k style plan has qualified for the November ballot. The proposal easily exceeded the 26,000 verified signatures it needed to make the ballot. Proponents gathered more than 40,000 signatures, with […]
Here’s the thing about union busters and the people who pay half of our effective tax rate like Mitt Romney and Pete Peterson – they’re nothing if not media savvy. That’s why you will see more and more former “media personalities” like Campbell Brown – formerly of CNN. What’s she up to these days? She’s […]
It’s extremely rare, like seeing Bigfoot riding a unicorn on to a spaceship, for a police association and the American Civil Liberties Union to agree on anything, ever. But sometimes a proposal is so transparent- such a politically inspired move, that the backlash winds up putting arch enemies on the same page. The new curfew […]
Police officers, and the organizations that represent their interests like police associations, are generally very politically and culturally conservative. This is due in part to the mythology that one of the two main political parties in this country is somehow more interested in law and order than the other. But what happens in a state […]
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a world-class politician. How else could a union buster win so many endorsements from public sector associations? But the obese cat is now out of the bag and the people whose pensions are being toyed with like French fries now have their eyes wide open. Currently Christie is laying […]
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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 […]
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