by Ron DeLord | Feb 7, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Damage It’s difficult to look beyond the human cost of police abuse. For decades, too many Chicagoans have been brutalized, wrongfully prosecuted and killed by members of law enforcement sworn to protect them – sewing seeds of cynicism and outright hatred across...
by Ron DeLord | Jan 14, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
As the Department of Justice begins its civil rights investigation into the Chicago Police Department, or CPD, it would be wise to investigate the collective-bargaining agreements that too often let the force’s bad apples rot on the job. For example, critics have...