Floyd killing shows police unions abuse power. We need radical reform: Former union lawyer

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'These unions have used collective bargaining to protect their members from accountability for racist killing. And, in doing so, they have made such killings more likely and more frequent,' writes Benjamin Sachs for usatodayopinion.

and a luxury not afforded even to criminal suspects and one that allows officers time to develop a strategy to avoid accountability.

, especially if the investigating agency has committed procedural errors. Police collective bargaining agreements, in short, insulate cops from discipline.I have spent my career working in and around the labor movement, first as a lawyer for a community-based workers center, then in the general counsel’s office of a major labor union, and for the past dozen years researching and teaching labor law at Harvard.

 

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