Black cop union -- separate from white cops -- slams St. Louis police department.
Did other people here know that in many police departments across the country, black officers had separate unions from white officers?
One more thing I didn't know . . .
Black police union in St. Louis releases scathing evaluation of their own department, call for the resignation of Police Chief Sam Dotson
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-black-union-st-louis-slams-department-article-1.2702852
Few people know that all over this country, many police departments have two separate police unions — one for white officers and one for black officers. St. Louis is one of those cities with segregated police unions where African-American officers felt like they had to form their own separate organization in order for their concerns and needs to be addressed. It's despicable that this is still the case in 2016, but it is very real.
Even the name of the African-American police union in St. Louis, The Ethical Society of Police, clues us in to the fact that they felt like their white counterparts in law enforcement often lacked the basic integrity required of the job.
On Thursday, in a Daily News exclusive, The Ethical Society of Police has released a scathing, comprehensive 112 page evaluation of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. At a scheduled forum Thursday evening, black police officers from the Ethical Society of Police told The News that they plan to publicly call for the immediate resignation of Police Chief Sam Dotson based on the damning findings of their report, which is embedded below.
It goes to into painstaking and meticulous lengths to detail 360 degrees of racism, discrimination, cronyism and even crime within the department. The union had previously given Dotson a vote of "no-confidence," but this is the first time they have called outright for his termination.
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