AFGE represents VA nurses as well as the masked agents of the Border Patrol roaming the streets of Minneapolis. It kicked ICE out in 2022. Cop unions are a malicious presence in the AFL-CIO.
We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.
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The AFL-CIO’s new report on police reform doesn’t come anywhere close to what’s needed. Written largely from the perspective of police officers, it rejects calls to defund the police, embracing the failed approach of trying to weed out bad apples.
The long-awaited report affirms support for police unions, and rejects the idea of defunding the police.
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A plan of a committee convened by the AFL-CIO, Teamsters and Service Employees International Union aims to encourage police union members "to speak up and take action if fellow members are violating their professional oath or abusing their power."
...this is not simply the story of one “rogue cop.” It is a window into the anti-Black violence perpetrated routinely by police in this country, as part of a brutal and racist system.
Law enforcement organizations have long treated mass incarceration as a job creation program. In 2020, the tide began turning against them.
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