Police Unions and Commonsense Reforms

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The political system, the political power of the unions is so entrenched that in order to get in office, oin most cases, you're going to need to have the support of those unions. And if you don't, they 're going to tell people expressly not to vote for you. I think we're seeing the police unions thwart a lot of sensible reforms around the use of force. Theyv become so entrenched, and it's just so low level a that then, you know, what should be obvious justice basically just gets thrown away for what's expedient....

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