Comments on: Great moments in public-sector unionism

By: Treasky

Treasky — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:26:40 +0000

I’d bet real money the person arrested was related to or a friend of one of the other officers. It seems more like they are jealously guarding their power to selectively arrest non-violent crimes than some silly union grievance. Of course, I have no proof of that, or even a good reason to believe that beyond the history of stories in the past few years, in the age of policing’s “new professionalism”. It’s just me trying to make sense of this story.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:30:28 +0000

This is a great example of what happens when decent public-advancement groups complete their goals and continue to exist. Whether it’s a union or a Jesse Jackson group, once they achieve the objective, there’s nowhere else to go but to create issues that don’t exist, thereby making the organization a problem of equal mass of that of the original (but even harder to fix).

By: Rliyen

Rliyen — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:37:53 +0000

That is state of the art sad.

By: Morning Links | The Agitator

Morning Links | The Agitator — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:09:45 +0000

[…] Police union files grievance because police chief made a drug arrest. Apparently, the chief wasn’t allowed to make arrests under the collective bargaining agreement. […]

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:54:53 +0000

Thanks for catching truncated link, fixed now.

By: Nezuji

Nezuji — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:11:53 +0000

So, if I make a citizen’s arrest, I’m a scab?

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:54:39 +0000

You can get to the article via Taranto.

I guess there’s so little crime in Scranton that the union members fear layoffs if the chief does police work.

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:35:22 +0000

The link to the Times-Tribune has been truncated and therefore does not work.