{"id":131576,"date":"2016-09-18T20:50:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T02:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/the-cops-who-support-trump.html"},"modified":"2016-09-18T20:50:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T02:50:50","slug":"the-cops-who-support-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/the-cops-who-support-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"The Cops Who Support Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a weird and troubling election, and it's been a weird and troubling several years for public\/police relations. Problems with minorities, problems around civil forfeiture, problems with military equipment, problems with shootings and a sense that the cops are more interested sometimes protecting their own than the general public.<\/p>\n

That makes this whole-hearted endorsement of Donald Trump by the Fraternal Order of Police all the more problematic. It really seems to come across as clarifying exactly where the police stand: with someone who will protect them from accountability, who will rein in the Justice Department, who will restart shipping military surplus weapons to local law enforcement, who will make it clear where the poor and minorities (and journalists) stand in this country.<\/p>\n

It's not the move of an organization that wants to reestablish ties that may be frayed or broken. It's the move of an organization that's willing to side with a guy whose own adherence to the law has been sketchy, whose espoused approach to any problem is bluster and bombast, and who's also supported by a variety of zany groups and racists and xenophobes and sexists. And these are who the FOP and its members have chosen to stand by.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Yonatan Zunger<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The national Fraternal Order of Police has endorsed Trump. I did not think I could become any more disappointed with American police, but they have found another way. <\/p>\n

It is clear that they see Trump as deeply representative of their priorities and likely to stand behind them no matter what. Unfortunately, this makes clear what their priorities are. Police unions have decided that their first and foremost principle is to protect individual officers from any form of accountability, up to and including for rape and murder; they apparently have also decided to include white supremacy in their formal charter. <\/p>\n

If you combine this with other police union statements in the past few days – like the Miami union's saying that they will not provide police protection to the Dolphins football team until and unless the team forces its members to stand during the anthem – it has become painfully clear that police unions across the country have converged on a belief that any opposition to them, any suggestion that their power should be less than unlimited, is "anti-cop." <\/p>\n

I have always been suspicious of the notion of public sector unions, but police unions have gone so far beyond any prospective worst case of how such a union could behave that their very existence has become unconscionable. The armed forces of a state must always be subordinate to civilian oversight – and a police union which can demand exemption from this, and threaten violence or public disorder (as Miami's just did, and as many others have) if it is not granted, is an enemy of democracy itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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