I don't blame her.

To wit: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFPD-union-s-dog-photo-called-insult-to-Black-9123646.php

And this: http://sfist.com/2016/05/11/former_police_union_president_offic.php

to set up an excuse for endorsing Donnie.

Call it instead...I don't know...a 'clan', maybe...

Police unions work to protect their members just like any other union.

And if they do, they don't get paid administrative leave. They get prison.

The Ironworker union protects Ironworker from his boss (owners of the company, and upper management). The Union is usually disliked by management, are derided as unnecessary , crooked, ect.
The Police Union protects the cop from his boss (taxpaying citizens). The Union is disliked by some taxpayers, and are derided and unnecessary, crooked, ect.
It all just depends on who is paying the bills.

Unions are required to protect their members, it isn't a choice.

especially over the way your treating black citizens across the country

Seems like a partisan clown.

As far as I can tell it's a fundraising and lobbying organization. Someone fill me in if that's incorrect.

similar to the VFW or Masons and certainly not a union.

They contract with boiler rooms and independent sales forces to sale advertisement and or whatever. Most of the money is spent on overhead and they get a cut. Of course this is a common deal for unions, also. I knew a couple of guys who printed a union directory. They sold ads out of a boiler room. They used to actually print them every year, send some copies to the union halls to keep it legal, the rest they just threw in the dumpster every year. Before than they just rented an office a tiny office in a labor hall so they could say your ad was in the hall. They didn't tell anybody that it was a small one on the wall of a rarely used office. I'm sure the leaders get a kickback under the table and the members get diddly.

But they protect and defend ANY behavior. An organization that has such low standards is not deserving of the classification of union.

encouraging neighborhood policing in the sense that police get to know the people in their towns and work with the community to break down attitudes both sides have of each other. Police have an Us vs. Them outlook and the community as a whole are afraid of them. She could have dressed them down but good for the epidemic in unnecessary and illegal police violence on the communities they are to serve. She could use that opportunity to push for independent prosecutors in cases of alleged police misconduct.

She wasn't going to get their support anyway, most cops are Republicans just like the military, but it would have been great to see her with a plan to reduce all of the unjustified police shootings, beatings, and arrests.

Sorry, I think he's a liar just like his hero Trump.

Hillary could highlight that to their faces!

doesnt matter how many Trump trolls attack her or attempt to bait her

. . .that in future visits, she will talk to gatherings of police officers in different cities, just not to the head honchos of the NFOP, or whatever they call themselves these days.

Fuck him if he feels dissed. I doubt she has time for his kind right now.

Note: I'm not referring to rank-and-file police union members as the problem, but with too many of their heads.

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yeah Chuckie, maybe she's heard about some of the shit spewed by your members at meetings.

firefighters. The State patrol which protects Walker is run by the Father of our Senate Leader--Fitsgerald--another Repug who is dissing on WI air, land and water!!

The FOP is a protection racket for bad cops. Speaks volumes that they will endorse a Nazi.

or their powers severely curtailed, they are simply another gang protecting their members by any means necessary.

These national fraternal orders of police or firemen are lobbying organizations more than unions, although some of the local lodges may also function as unions.

In NY the unions are the UFA and the PBA.

Stop being like the NRA, your organization has problems that need attention ASAP.

If a candidate wants an endorsement, they INFORM the endorsee?

Instead of just of a candidate just coming out and stating they endorse?

cleansing their ranks of the thug cops., then we may want it!

She'll win more minority votes by telling the LEO union to stuff it.