Sign the petition: Stop police departments from protecting bad cops

Friend, police union contracts and police bill of rights laws intentionally block law enforcement officers from accountability. These laws and contracts give unfair advantages to police officers [including]( cops reviewing evidence against them before they're interrogated, time limits on these interrogations, and erasing previous misconduct from their records. [Sign if you agree: Police should adhere to the same laws as the rest of us. It's time to end unfair police union contracts now.]( [SIGN IF YOU AGREE]( Police officers are supposed to uphold the law, but that shouldn't make them exempt from obeying the law themselves. However, it is nearly impossible to [indict](, let alone convict, a cop of wrongdoing. Unions like the Fraternal Order of Police have proven to be such [powerful]( political entities that most politicians hesitate to cross them. The concentration of power in police unions means they answer to no one but themselves. Those entrusted with authority over people's safety, those often asked to make life or death decisions, simply cannot continue to escape real, enforceable scrutiny of their actions. [Sign if you agree: Police uphold the law, but they are not exempt from the law. It's time to end unfair police union contracts now.]( [SIGN IF YOU AGREE]( Keep fighting, Irna Landrum, Daily Kos Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Sent via [ActionNetwork.org](. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please [click here](.