It’s no secret that there’s a relentless, well-funded attack on your pensions. The people and organizations that are determined, no matter what it takes, to get their greedy hands on your retirement funds have used every tactic in the book to reach their dream of shutting down traditional pension plans and replacing them with 401(k)s. […]
Everyone knows that in the United States the numbers of workers represented by unions and enjoying the better pay and benefit package that comes with collective bargaining has been shrinking for decades. And if the Supreme Court rules that it is a violation of a public right of free speech to automatically collect dues from […]
A recent federal appeals court ruling rejected an appeal by the Cranston fire and police unions in Rhode Island in effect upholding the state’s 2011 and 2015 pension plan changes that resulted in a loss of retirement benefits. According to an in-depth report by the Providence Journal, the court ruled that police and firefighters in the […]
It turns out that Jersey City (NJ) has had a problem with officers allegedly getting paid fort security details at a city housing project that they did not work. According to a letter obtained by The Jersey Journal, evidence exists that the Jersey City public safety director was warned four years ago about potential abuses by […]
The latest pension debacle comes to us from Ft. Worth via a story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram by reporter Sandra Baker. Like so many other municipalities across the U.S., the situation has become so dire that Moody’s just lowered Fort Worth’s rating on some general obligation bonds for a second straight year. It appears […]
by Gary Delagnes (Ret.), San Francisco PD Colin Kaepernick was raised in Turlock, California, by two white parents who adopted him at a young age. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to a white, 19-year old single mother. His father, who was African American, apparently left before Colin was born. Colin was put up for adoption […]
by Brianna Dunn What until you hear this one. The State of Michigan is looking to let private, profit-making companies take over the work of licensed, certified law enforcement officers. This will happen if Arlan Meekhof, the state Senate’s Majority Leader, has his way. If the bill passes, the legislation would allow cities, towns, school […]
by Brianna Dunn Police union leaders are condemning the use of the “thin blue line” by hate groups and extremists. The symbol and phrase were originally created for communities to show their support of law enforcement officials. In a statement released Monday, The Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS) in a statement on Monday […]
By Eric W. Siddall As stories emerge about the Arnold Foundation’s “algorithm” pretrial release tool, we should be disturbed about the results. As covered in a previous blog, use of the tool is linked to two murders and the wholesale release of dangerous felons. However, a Wired story raises even more questions about the Arnold […]
By Daryl Turner As Nazis and white supremacists continue to plague our communities with marches and protests, let us be clear that we condemn their actions, beliefs, and rhetoric. What happened in Charlottesville last weekend was despicable and deplorable. It was an act of domestic terrorism. As law enforcement officers, we work hard every day […]
Via the Texas Observer: The Texas Senate passed a bill this week that appears to have driven a wedge between the Texas GOP and one of its key constituencies: law enforcement. “The very livelihood I’ve chosen, it seems the Republican Party is coming after it, and I don’t understand why,” Scott Leeton, president of the […]
There are quite a few state troopers out there who are not happy with their Governor, but none more so than New Jersey State Troopers who have called their governor, Chris Christie, “the worst governor in the United States.” When Christie announced that he would shut the state down over a dispute about the budget, […]
One of our local publications here in Honolulu, Civil Beat, recently ran a story about SHOPO contract negotiations. A lot of the information the paper printed was twisted to fit its storyline, as opposed to the truth. Many of the references to arbitration decisions are inaccurate. We know that many of our brother and sisters in law enforcement have […]
Via Governing magazine: John Arnold wasn’t a pension guy. The billionaire financier, who made a fortune in the stock market before retiring at 38, hadn’t ever really been interested in public retirement plans. But in early 2009, just months into the global financial crisis, Arnold began seeing a flurry of news articles about public pension […]
In Muskegon, Michigan, law enforcement people are getting the “two hands” treatment. That’s where someone gives you something with his or her right hand while taking something away with the left. According to multiple reports, Muskegon police would receive salary increases but also reductions to retirement benefits as part of a five-year labor agreement currently being negotiated. The deal […]
Via WFAA.com: The latest controversy in the Dallas Pension Fund tragedy, which one retired Dallas cop said was like getting a knife in this heart, was the slick mailer sent out to the people of Dallas from a group co-chaired by three former mayors who are promising to “salvage Dallas’ broken pension system.” Called the […]
Via the Dallas Observer: Of course Dallas cops and firefighters are furious over the public tone of the pension fund fight, because so much of it accuses the ordinary members of the fund of somehow being at the bottom of the debacle. All of the talk about pension fund millionaires, for example, makes it sound […]
Via the San Francisco Examiner: The unveiling of San Francisco’s next police chief, veteran Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief William Scott, was a occasion of celebration at City Hall on Tuesday. A beaming Mayor Ed Lee announced to reporters who will lead the troubled department, and flanking the mayor were The City’s law enforcement […]
Via The Washington Post: President-elect Donald Trump’s Twitter attack this week on a union official, followed by his choice of a labor secretary who has criticized new worker protections, has rattled leaders of the American labor movement, who fear unions may be facing their gravest crisis in decades. On Thursday, Trump announced that he would […]
Via KVUE.com: The Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT) is charging that the mayor of Austin, Steve Adler, violated Austin Officer Geoffrey Freeman’s rights to due process when they fired him after a fatal shooting of a naked and unarmed man last February. CLEAT has subpoenaed the Mayor to testify at an arbitration hearing […]
Ed. note: We just saw this alarming (but not surprising) story in The Washington Post. This is similar to what Elaine Cho (Labor Secretary in the George W. Bush administration) tried to do—change the wording of the Fair Labor Standards Acts to sneak through a provision to limit overtime for police, teachers, firefighters etc. If the […]
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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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