Policing. A Badge is still not a license.
"If labor laws and union contracts do not change the balance of power, nothing else will change." I wrote those words on November 17, 2020 in a post about police reform. I was not optimistic. Such a change takes a LOT of effort to overcome entrenched stake holders (read: Police Union). Much to my surprise, there is already one example of overcoming the Police Union's strangle hold on discipline and transparency. It seems the Hawaii legislature passed Act 47, a bill to undo the requirement to keep police discipline records confidential. The police union is fighting Act 47 with all the resources it can muster: "The State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers responded by filing several legal challenges in all the counties arguing that Act 47 should be declared unconstitutional because it infringed on officers’ privacy rights and violated the union’s collective bargaining agreement, which includes numerous confidentiality provisions meant to keep officer miscond...