The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

One of Maddow’s guests tonight rose an interesting point. He is an academic, among other things having studied other cities who had to restart their police forces from scratch. In almost every union contract is a clause that says the last person hired is the first be let go. If you defund the police, if you take away money enough for them to reduce numbers, you are going to put the younger idealist out of a job while leaving the older folk set in the prejudicial ways in charge.

I’m hearing he is advising the City Council in Milwaukee, with their veto proof nine members out to change things. Basically, you have to totally let go of everybody and start from scratch.

Also, the police unions seem to be more and more being presented as the bad guys. They are used to the violent policing style and will not let go without a fight.

Seems to me they are going to have a fight.