Wisconsin: Police union says Scott Walker has not kept promises about supporting law enforcement

[Scuba]

Sorry, but I cannot cut and paste from this publication. The Union cites Walker's budget cuts and spending controls as being contributing factors to the spike in violent crime in Wisconsin since Walker took office.

http://m.host.madison.com/news/local/writers/jessie-opoien/police-union-says-scott-walker-has-not-kept-promises-about/article_0d8243d3-f9a1-5acd-96e2-6356fa866b52.html?mobile_touch=true

[Half-Century Man]

1. An open letter to the Police Unions of Wisconsin.

Dear Officers
When you saw him lie to everybody else; when you saw how incredibly anti-union he is; when you saw him empty the accounts of other public services; when you saw him outsource every possible state function to private companies; when you saw him sell pristine wilderness to strip miners for political contributions; when you saw him give away millions in state money in exchange for thousands in corporate contributions; when you saw the overwhelming majority of the money to keep him in office comes from unknown persons outside of Wisconsin; when you see the lines at food pantries get longer and longer; when you watched him kick 60,000+ people off of medicaid; when you watched him reject millions in federal funds (the taxes we have already paid in) for partisan politics: In other words after you saw the disdain he has for the citizens of the state he is Governor of......

How did you let yourselves believe your status was anything other than, Next?

And I didn't even touch on the discriminatory legislation he has approved of which targets half (or slightly more) of the population. The women of Wisconsin know how badly they have been treated. It may not be apparent standing behind your thin blue line (the edge of a cone of silence?), but it is there.

[AleksS]

2. That's what I was thinking too.

That's what I was thinking too.

Apparently 30 pieces of silver don't last as long as the police unions hoped.

The Police Unions were warned. But when they had the choice of standing with everyone else getting screwed by Walker, they chose to be divided. They shouldn't be surprised that now it's their turn. And thanks in part to their own actions, there are few left to stand with them. And fewer left who are willing to stand with them after getting stabbed in the back on Act 10.