Discussion: Largest US Police Union Definitely Does Not Have A 'Wish List' For Trump

…and the militarization of the police continues…this will SO end well…

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poor Jeff Sessions

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“The doc has been misrepresented as an FOP ‘wish list’, which is is not,” he wrote in an email.

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“The disclaimer was added to make that fact clearer. If and when we want to make our views known to the incoming Administration, we will do so directly to them, not through the media.”

So that’s the FOP’s version of a Penthouse Forum letter, okie-dokie.

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Asked to explain the change, Jim Pasco, the executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, said that the document had been “misrepresented” as a policy wish list.

So then why produce a document? It’s a “policy wish list.”
Ex-military equipment for civilian police department should have to show need, the cost of training to use equipment, and what’s the cost maintaining such equipment.
As for local LEOs working with ICE who will pay for their participation?
And racial profiling hasn’t worked, it’s just a technique to harass and deny American citizens of their due rights.

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Supporting the good cops just got a fair bit harder. Maybe the FOP should get out of the “predicting” business and just do its damn job.

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How else is ‘Santa’ going to know what you want?

Evidently not in ‘Trump land’.

taxpayers.

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“It is not an advocacy document and does not represent the FOP’s agenda for the first 100 days of the incoming Administration. It is an advisory to our members as to what may happen when the new Administration takes over [Italics original]."

Oh, please! "Moaaar Tanx!"

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Translation: We have a much larger document we’re sending to Unpresident Dumblefuck via secret channels.

“That’s not a wish list…THIS is a wish list.”

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The specific list disavowed as an FOP wish list, but not a single policy was disavowed and we are told that their wishes will be transmitted in private. I’m reassured.

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I hope that they actually do that.

Back channels will be the death of that administration.

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Why exactly would a police union have concerns about ‘sanctuary cities’? What does a cities status on immigration have to do with protecting the local population from crime.

I live in the City of Saint Louis and I can assure you immigrants are not a crime concern. Illegal drugs and poverty are our issues arising out of native born communities. .

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Why does the FOP have a policy issue about Obamacare?

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Because a disproportionate amount of cops are old white assholes who give decent cops a bad name due to them transferring toxic ideas about immigrants and minorities into the force. And I bet you dimes to dollars that most of these guys have never been within spitting distance of a sanctuary city.

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Exactly what I was thinking! What a bunch of pricks, just trying to hurt as many “others” as possible.

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It is doing its job. The job of the police is to protect the community in response to the local civilian command authority. The job of the police union is to protect the police from both the community and from the local civilian command authority.

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I feel like we are about to live under “The man in the High Castle.”

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Seriously? I’m sure many of them and their families benefit from it. Particularly since many law enforcement folks retire after 20 years and are not eligible yet for Medicare. Plus it allows portability so they can open a business or consult.

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end travel to the U.S. from “terrorist-prone” areas;

Like Arizona, the Deep South, Oregon, etc.? Terrorist prone places like that?

EDIT TO ADD:

end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and use its federal database to locate and deport undocumented young people;

@aiddon ^^ This ^^ speaks to your point completely.

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Well, they were in the know.