And we wonder why there are so many bad cops. Maybe we aught to start making the unions pay when cops with a history of bad behavior shoot or beat up somebody and the family sues the PD.

yes, exactly “binding arbitration” means just that. This chief is in an unenviable position but make no mistake, they owe him the back pay by law and if they refuse to re-instate him they might have to pay serious penalties in lost future income and bad-faith penalties.

This. Police unions have proven themselves to not be real unions, and shouldn’t be treated like real unions. If anyone needs further example, look at how they are always left out of anti-union “right to work” legislation. Look at how they are sicced on other unions when they come down to state capitols to protest this…

Viewing how police “unions” operate, and how police arbitration cases tend to work out, I have the same feeling. As a union person in aviation/aerospace for over 36 years, I would say that when it comes to arbitration the union loses 75% of the time even when the company has clearly violated terms of the contract.…

The city might have a case though. A cop with a demonstrated racist past can’t be trusted to work any case involving PoC or different religions. Which will be almost everybody he comes in contact with.

We tried to refuse the arbitrator’s decision and it went to court and ... we lost and the shitty cop who shot someone got his job back.  More or less.  I think he spent the rest of his career behind a desk in a closet.  Still, he was paid and got pension and etc.

Their contract probably allows a certain amount of egregious racism per year, and you can probably donate your extra racism to another cop who was just a little more egregious. If you don’t get caught doing racist stuff, you can cash out the unused amount at the end of the year

You can acknowledge a cop is a racist and/or criminal piece of shit, but you can’t hold said cop accountable. Promotions and raises are still A-OK.

However, the arbitrator ruled that Brown’s racist comments were egregious and had no place in law enforcement and that the Manchester Police Department had properly applied a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to racist conduct,” the Manchester Police statement said. “Nevertheless, the arbitrator determined that Brown should…

Oh yeah, of course they do. If there’s any fiction they cling to more desperately than “I am a millionaire who hasn’t gotten his money yet” it’s “I’m better than every single POC in existence. He got into Harvard and I flunked out of community college but that’s ONLY because of their power network!”

The lack of vetting about claims is a major problem. We already have Fakebook allowing all kinds of crazy junk flying around, most of it totally fake, yet what it produces is a population that’s completely immune to facts.

Excuse my French, but fuck vetting. We’re talking about Donald Trump, here, and we’re less than two months out from the election. True or not - and it’s DEFINTELY true - there is no way he’d be able to prove it one way or the other. He’s going to call it fake no matter it’s veracity, so unload on his ass.

“I will never get the Hispanic vote, like the blacks, they’re too stupid to vote for Trump. They’re not my people,” Cohen recalls Trump saying.

I mean the video looks like everything associated with the man, cheap, poorly done, minimal effort and designed to make him look better than he is. I mean white Americans seem to be so proud that they selected this slug to lead them that I wish we could give them three states so all of his demented flock could move…

Also deeply ironic considering that Trump is Putin’s stooge, and has made numerous baffling foreign policy decisions that benefit only Russia. That’d be like a Republican complaining about Clinton’s blowjob and then voting for a serial adulterer that brags about committing sexual assault—oh wait.  I’m sensing a…

Hiring an actor to play the president just so you can berate him is a totally normal and mentally healthy thing to do. Why would you suggest otherwise?

While none of this is surprising given what we know about the short-fingered vulgarian, when you think about some of the shit that comes out of his mouth it’s kind of amazing he’s still alive. Like did he ever, in a fit of crassness and drunk on power over others, suggest someone go ahead and bring their daughter…

If the implication is that Trump used the term “Manchurian Candidate” then I call BS.  What are the odds that Trump has ever seen, much less understood, this surprisingly good classic movie?  (Yes I’m talking about the original, not the remake.)

Trump hired a “Faux-Bama” to participate in a video in which Trump “ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him.”

The part of him receiving a laying on of hands and prayer and then belittling it all should be more thoroughly vetted, and then trotted out more.