Why Only Police Unions?

Break the cycle: Five changes in Minnesota policing that can be enacted right now

Rarely do I get really frustrated with the media, politicians and social media, but this obsession with "Police Unions" are bad and they need to have less power by typically "Union Supporting Friggin Liberals" is DRIVING ME CRAZY !!!

These folks fight tooth and nail to support ED MN, block major school reforms and the removal of poor performing teachers.  I mean the school system and policies are screwing up 1000's of kids at a time and here they are laser focused on the officers that have to deal with the mess our questionable parent(s), social service system and education system have give them.

Now I have avoided Minnpost for a LONG time due to their slow and questionable moderation...  But I am trying again. 

"It’s pretty clear Boss Kroll’s removal is a necessary (but not sufficient) component of reform. The awful Kroll is a symptom of dysfunction, not the root cause. Just as Trump did not cause the degeneration of the Repub party and its supporters, he is merely a logical evolution of the movement. 

Boss Kroll occupies an elective position, and his supporters apparently love his, um, “approach”. No decent copper apparently would dare challenging him, probably because they would lose and become force pariahs to boot. 

Quite curious how “conservatives” despise public employee unions in general, but turn a blind eye to (reactionary?) police unions in particular…" BK

And the comments I left.

Okay, I have to ask since BK brought up the topic. As you know, I am happy to weaken public employee unions in America and let the elected officials (Mayor/ School Board) and their hired Administrators (Superintendent/ Police Chief) make big changes in the system and staffing.

I mean we give the elected and hired bosses goals and a budget and then tie their hands with union rules. Not sure that makes sense when 50% of kids are being left behind and that leads to some very bad consequences.

Are the normal Union supporters willing to stop protecting questionable personnel across the board? Maybe even change compensation systems to reward people who take the most challenging positions and exceed expectations?

Or do they deem Union Employee choices as “bad” in one case and “good” in another?

The second question is should we encourage rethinking licensing requirements, employee reviews, alternative licensing paths, etc for all “public employee” positions? And if a Teacher has questionable performance results, should we have their performance graded by an independent committee? My point is that questionable cops harm the community, but so do other questionable Union employees.

Then there is the big question that no one seems to be discussing… What should society do to hold parent(s) accountable to ensure their kids are ready for kindergarten, supported in K-12, etc? Or do we accept their right to have kids with no accountability for how they are raised?

Please remember that part of the problem is that gang membership within certain segments of our society is much higher. Are we willing to tackle the whole problem or only go after the police who have to face the consequences of our society’s choices?