by Ron DeLord | Mar 13, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The Black Lives Matter movement and the recent focus in the media on how police interact with citizens of different races has helped engage Americans in an important conversation about how law enforcement works. Study afterstudy has found that black drivers are more...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 13, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Sometimes I think I’m living in an alternate universe, one totally askew from reality. Or maybe I’m just in the Twilight Zone. I don’t know. What I do know is that a preponderance of prejudiced pundits and predisposed politicians, as well as the many biased media and...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 13, 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 13, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
U.S. Rep Michael Capuano has reintroduced the “Sean Collier Bill,” a proposed law that would give the families of campus police officers killed in the line of duty the same benefits as those of regular community officers. “It doesn’t happen that often, but when a...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 13, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The Boston City Council voted unanimously last week to approve an arbitration award for a 29 percent pay increase over six years for the Boston Police’s Benvolent Society of Detectives Benevolent Society. Councillors did not choose to reject the measure, which was...
by Ron DeLord | Mar 13, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
When a grand jury in December indicted Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Peter Peraza for killing a civilian, his boss, Scott Israel, told the New York Times there “is no Thin Blue Line here.” His people, he said, would have to answer to him if they shot...
