Why Police Unions Are Lashing Out Against Cop Critics Like Never Before"

Why Police Unions Are questioning citizens first amendment rights

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/police-unions-critics-backlash

http://www.ny1.com/content/news/220470/mayor--police-commissioner-fire-back-at-police-unions-following-funeral-ban/

Bill DeBlasio and Bill Bratton take on Police Union boss in NYC:
"Some voices in this city have decided to be divisive," said Mayor Bill de Blasio.

"It was a step too far, a step too far," said Police Commissioner William Bratton.

Those comments were directed at one union in particular: the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

"That statement on Friday by the PBA was just plain divisive and unacceptable," de Blasio said.

Icy rhetoric from Mayor de Blasio and a staunch defense from Police Commissioner Bill Bratton came in response to a call from the city's police officers' union to ban the mayor and the council speaker from NYPD funerals. "