Police Union Extortion

In Everett and Revere, police union protestors (read: cops with guns and menacing looks) shut down state construction projects yesterday, according to the Boston Globe. My feelings about police unions and police details are well documented in the blog archives here, but this is a new extreme.

I believe the police protestors in those towns should be investigated by the state for possible extortion, or threats. Facing a picket line is one thing, but facing an armed picket line that has the power to arrest you, or shoot you, is another. The cops know that. They know they were intimidating the work crews and threatening the state.

I hope the Governor won't be intimidated. He should stop all state funding for the Revere and Everett police departments, and he should send in the State Police -as only he can do- to guard state work crews in those cities.

Those protesting cops are no better than criminals. And I don't say that lightly.

Comments

Yes U are absolutely Right. I'm a State Highway Employee and I had seen first hand. They come in the morning and demand 8 hours.saying ' I'm here for 8, If it's going to be 4 I'm going Home. At the same time they don't even want to stay for 8. 'I had worked night shift I need to go.' Good Excuses. All the Time.

[Phinance]

I know some longshoremen who are much worse. They brag to me constantly about their high pay and sleeping on the job while a supervisor laughs if there is no work on the docks. Ridiculous. Unions have a place in history...in the past.