I appreciate and commend you on your honesty about this reality Sir. Far too many times in the last 20 years there has been so many conversations where there is always absolute denial that there is even a problem at all. Bad pickles just don’t exist.
I think you are absolutely right about the unions, and not just in this occupation, in all occupations where there is a union representing employees. It’s a protection racket that gives the employee a subconscious assumption that they are completely immune to consequences and accountability of their own actions. The “I can’t be fired no matter what” mentality starts to influence their actions.
Unfortunately this feeling of immunity affects very important on the job decisions and personal pride to do the best they can in performing their job. Why worry if there are almost no consequences to worry about. And this is true, these officers in this event just have to call their union legal dept and they will probably be let off the hook no matter what the situation was.
So in the bigger picture of cause and effect, the fault for these events is on both the local depts and the union. The local depts for not taking care of their employees well enough so that they do not need to join a union to get what they deserve. And the unions for supplying almost absolute immunity from consequences of personal wrong action making them legally untouchable up to, and even after a blatant event like this.
But in turn there is also the huge “public” factor in this too. The public is the jury that allow these issues to perpetuate and become more often and more common because of their own decisions in trial cases concerning these events. This factor is just recently starting to change.
I cannot agree with you more. Unfortunately, we’ve now progressed to a point where it isn’t just prevalent in the workplace anymore. It’s systemic in everyday life.
In a “civilized” society, there would be a massive uproar over the disenfranchisement of ALL Americans, regardless of political affiliation. The mere fact that there are little to no Democrats upset with the voter fraud across the country speaks volumes to where we are as a society.
As for unions, there was once a time and a place for the protection of workers. But in many instances the roles have reversed. The Union Bosses are the ones benefiting from the work of their membership, often to the members detriment. Add in the overall greed and you have a recipe for disaster.
It would be too easy to put the blame on one thing when the problems with police, fire, public safety, auto workers, teachers, (name your profession) is we have forgotten that with responsibility comes accountability. It’s just too damn easy to pass the buck.
The situation at hand is a tragedy. Hopefully, the truth will come out and whatever the outcome it reflects well on the criminal justice system. Unfortunately, there is so little faith in the system I have my doubts.