Since 2006, 8 Minneapolis police firings have been decided by arbitrators and all but 2 resulted in the officers getting their jobs back, according to an NBCNews review of records.
, the president of the city's police union wrote a letter to his members signaling that he was working to restore the officers' jobs.Kroll's union has had great success in getting police officer terminations reversed — by appealing them to arbitrators.
"That case might be more egregious than most, but it's not at all far-fetched in the world of law enforcement labor," said Andy Skoogman, executive director of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association."It's maddening, and the general public should be outraged." The issue has come under fresh scrutiny in the wake of Floyd's killing. The 46-year-old Black man's death in police custody has focused attention on a wide range of policing matters, including the lack of a national registry of officer misconduct and the obstacles in disciplining problem cops.
In Minnesota, as in many other states, members of public employee unions have the right to appeal any form of discipline to binding arbitration.Presented with a pool of seven, each side takes turns striking a name until only one remains.
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