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Originally Posted by Smudger2408
Currently, in the national discourse, police are the enemy. I think this is a horrible thing.
99% of them wake up every day attempting make us all safer.
I hope this specific thread can be a beacon of support for police officers today.
Their are several threads on this forum talking about how police screw up.
I would like this thread to discuss when police do thing correctly, or helped somebody out.
I would like this thread to mourn women and men that are slaughtered in the line of duty.
Certainly, talk of training and techniques that can make our great Policewoman/Man even better is encouraged.
Talking of how budget allocation can be improved is encouraged.
But, wishing our hopes and prayers to women and men that put their lives on the line every day is warranted.
I Support Blue Lives.
Why would the police union want to destroy police misconduct records? You'd think if the 99% good cops wanted to get the 1% bad cops out, they'd want to easily identify the bad cops.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/...nduct-records/
This case centered on the police contract, which states most officer complaints would be destroyed after five years. But the city was not doing that, and argued the courts required that the records be kept.
“I believe it is a bad decision that not only has disastrous effect on not only our union but also every other union in this state specifically,” said John Catanzara, Jr., Chicago FOP President.
Catanzara reacted to the court’s decision Thursday, which backs the city of Chicago in determining that the city is not required to destroy misconduct records of police officers, despite a clause in the union contract that states most of those files are to be destroyed after five years.
“This part of the contract was in place for the better part of 4 decades, now they’re making a decision on current environment. Current public policy. That’s not the way contractual rights are supposed to work. They’re basically bending to the will of current sentiment,” Catanzara said.