by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
March 12–Scranton Mayor Bill Courtright announced Friday that his administration reached a key settlement with the city’s police and firefighter unions to finally pay them millions in back pay overdue to them from a landmark arbitration court ruling and...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KARE) A Minnesota lawmaker wants to give cities to power to make some protesters liable for the cost of policing mass demonstrations. Rep. Nick Zerwas, an Elk River Republican, said it’s not an effort to discourage lawful protests. If his...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
A battle is brewing among law enforcement leadership organizations about whether and how to change police use-of-force policy and training to be kinder and gentler. As the public, the media, and law enforcement professionals grapple with the persistent post-Ferguson...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
In a single phrase, the head of one national police-chiefs group succinctly described the type of officer-involved shootings his organization is trying to reduce: Lawful but awful. Chuck Wexler used those words during a late January session of the Police Executive...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The funeral Tuesday for a Virginia police officer killed on her first day of work serves as the latest reminder of an uptick of fatal police shootings so far this year. Of 14 line-of-duty deaths of law enforcement officers recorded in the first two months of 2016, 11...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 27, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
In a fascinating paper made public earlier this month, University of Chicago law professor John Rappaport points to a powerful but unlikely resource that is quietly reforming police departments across the country: the insurance industry. Many cities take out policies,...
