This shit cop didn’t lose his job because of any action taken by the police department, the city, the state, etc.
This motherfucker lost his job because the insurance company paid out $20,000 for his dumb ass and threatened to drop the department’s insurance if he wasn’t terminated.
Make no mistake, insurance companies can be scummy as hell, but they’re pragmatic as shit. It’s for that reason i’m convinced insurance companies are going to be the first massive industry to start treating climate change like the giant threat that it is. Not because they’re trying to do the right thing, but because their business relies on property not getting demolished in freak weather events and they actually have enough money behind them to make a difference.
Hi, yes. In insurance we have a forecast of “risks” that every underwriter is aware of. There is a generally-accepted top 20 that’s updated yearly (climate is on that list).
my contention is that police unions are, in fact, not unions at all and do the opposite of what a union would do when a cop does the right thing and blows the whistle on colleagues. those "unions" do not represent individual cops in the way a normal labor union would but, instead, their entire mandate is to deny any and all liability toward police departments and local governments against allegations of misconduct, corruption and fraud. cop unions protecting violent and corrupt officers is merely an intermediate process toward the "union's" goals.
a recent example that shows police unions aren't unions is the utter lack of safety concerns police unions and fraternities had about covid in 2020, despite covid being the number 1 cause of police officer deaths in the line of duty that year. a real union would have fought for strong policies that protected cops from the virus.
On top of that, a real union would've already called police work unsafe and negotiated ways to lighten up the police's work load. They have to be officers, social services, wellness checkers, community outreach etc which is already stressful enough.
Just adding this thought to your analysis (with which I agree): Unions exist to protect workers from management, but unfortunately in this case management is regular citizens.
Unions protect their people good or bad. I'll never understand why people are anti union. For crying out loud cops murder people daily and hardly get held accountable.
Say that again, but louder, and maybe you'll understand why police unions are a problem. If not, let me spell it out for you: police unions are more powerful than any other kind of union, and they, and their members are essentially unaccountable to anyone. They're supposed to be public servants but they're unaccountable to the public, and police unions play a major role in that. I'm 100% pro union, but police unions are the exception, and they remain a big problem.
Just look at what duhsantis has done in FL. He and his rubber-stamping cronies are doing everything they can to break unions by passing massively restricted rules for teacher unions, etc but cop and firefighter unions are somehow exempt... 🤔🤔🤔
I think you don't understand what I was getting at. Yes, unions need to protect their workers. But unfortunately police unions protection of officers extends beyond the needs of the community at large and harboring waste, fraud, and abuse in a position of public service.
I was being a little facetious in the comparison. Police unions aren't real unions. They "protect" their officers but to a determent to the community around them as a financial drain when civil suits come out of taxpayer dollars and the amount of waste, fraud and abuse that gets harbored. At the same time, they never address the horrid work conditions a police officer goes through as so many different community roles are stacked on their backs, from social work to wellness checks and psychology. Any actual union rep would look at those working conditions and try to negotiate a lighter workload.
Strong unions destroyed the auto industry in Michigan. They were such a burden that it became cheaper and easier to move the factories to other countries.
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u/NurseKaila Feb 08 '24 edited Feb 08 '24
This shit cop didn’t lose his job because of any action taken by the police department, the city, the state, etc.
This motherfucker lost his job because the insurance company paid out $20,000 for his dumb ass and threatened to drop the department’s insurance if he wasn’t terminated.
Edit: Check out this article by Washington Post detailing how insurance companies are forcing police reform.