Governor Cuomo Pandemic Update June 13 2020

Governor Cuomo Pandemic Update June 12 2020

Governor Cuomo Pandemic Update June 11 2020

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Policing and Police Unions

Doctors, lawyers and teachers, among other professions, have unions. Unions in most professions, as separate from labor unions, exist to promote the professionalism of their members, and to negotiate contracts that pay for their professions' value.

Police unions only do the latter, and sometimes slip in some contracted "agreements" with civilian governments that are contrary to civilians' interests. Due process after citizen complaints is seldom what they support, though some might. Police unions should not support any secrecy surrounding the due processing of civilian complaints before the taxpayers who pay their salaries, which pay union dues. Today's police union leaders who support lawbreaking police are in the wrong.

Vetting professionals for government services should make clear that professionals are subject to public scrutiny. Teachers and other government workers don't get due process secrecy, and neither should police. Their unions should not insist on secrecy in the name of "privacy."

Policing was formed to maintain racial capitalism. From the Rangers who maintained Indian control before whites "settled" North America from East to West, to being slave patrollers and Jim Crow law enforcers, policing in the U.S. has been, from the start, a racist institutionalizing of law and order in service to land and property protections demanded by capitalism and the propertied rich classes.

History shows that policing has never been a neutral structure, no matter what Americans are told about "equality under the law." Policing has prioritized public order over rule of law. Policing has consistently been a "punch down" instrument of class war richies and their tools in state and federal governments. Biased prosecuting attorneys have been instrumental in protecting both police jobs and the propertied class, using racial capitalism's legal arguments arguments to protect richies' racial capitalist interests from local to federal court levels, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The legal history of policing, the courts and the law, has been meticulously revealed in Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, which I consider the best legal history of institutionalized racism ever written.

Police unions don't get to suddenly revise who police are, or justify what police do; union leaders don't get to mislead the public about what policing history is, and why their structures exist. To complain before media cameras, to harbor any lawbreaking, civil rights violating police under cover of protecting good police are not in Americans' interests. They are not enough to stop the shift in rule of law that must happen in Americans' interests.

Therefore, police unions need to go. Right along with the so-called police departments their so-called members work for.

Whatever restructuring police departments must do, so must police unions do in support of restructuring a fairer nation.

They've established structures in the past, and they can re-form new structures now. For the country's better governance, legal structure, and future as a real democracy.

Governor Cuomo Pandemic Update June 10 2020

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Governor Cuomo Pandemic Update June 9 2020

Governor Cuomo Pandemic Update June 8 2020

The coward and the commander

Divisive leadership is treasonous to the very name of this nation.