Reply To: What kind of police reforms do we need?

Many decently thoughtful ideas being presented here. But I think there is one big subject that is not being addressed. If you look at the stats, almost every cop in the news for being unduly violent has a record of past complaints and disciplinary actions for similar behavior. This is mostly because the police unions control much of the hiring/firing practices in city police departments. Unions in the public sector never do the public sector any good (look at teachers’ unions, prison unions, etc. for examples), but they do create city/state deficits for which we pay high taxes. So let’s outlaw unions in the public sector. I don’t know how it should be done, but it is a worthwhile cause