by Ron DeLord | Nov 28, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
There is a major fracture developing in American policing. Reaction to an array of very public incidents, many on video, have polarized many in law enforcement. On one side: officers who feel underappreciated, falsely accused and demoralized over accusations of...
by rondelord | Aug 27, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics
On Monday, we saw a renewed attack on the Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights (LEOBR) here in Maryland. Once again, well intentioned advocates for police accountability are misdirecting their energy toward something that will have no meaningful impact on the...
by rondelord | Jul 25, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Several dozen activists from civil rights groups, churches and unions rallied Thursday in Annapolis to demand reforms of police training and discipline to protect the rights of minority communities. Organizations that included the ACLU of Maryland, the NAACP, CASA of...
by rondelord | Jul 6, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
So far this year, more than a dozen Baltimore County officers have been involved in shootings in which civilians were killed or injured — but none of the officers’ full names have been released by the police department. Because of a decade-old provision in the...
by rondelord | May 22, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Fifty protesters marched several miles from the Gilmor Homes housing project in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of West Baltimore to the police union’s headquarters in Hampden on Wednesday night on behalf of Freddie Gray. Standing in the street in front of...