A New York City police union’s endorsement of President Trump confirmed what a growing share of the public has come to realize about America’s police: that their most treasured entitlement is their unaccountability. zakcheneyrice writes
Police Benevolent Association president Patrick J. Lynch and President Donald Trump . Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images New York City’s Police Benevolent Association, which advertises itself as “the largest municipal police union in the world,” endorsed President Trump on Friday, marking the first time the organization has made a presidential endorsement in at least 36 years, according to union head Patrick J. Lynch.
Americans have spoken and are emphatic: Policing needs fundamental change. Since George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, polling has shown a dramatic shift in how most people view law enforcement. According to Gallup, confidence in the institution of policing is the lowest it’s been since 1993, the year the pollster began collecting data on the subject, and — at 48 percent — has failed to amass majority support for the first time on record.
The PBA in particular has never been shy about wielding this power. The New Yorker describes their response to Mayor David Dinkins’s efforts to install a civilian review board in 1992: Nor have politicians usually suffered for indulging unions’ often outrageous behavior. Rudy Giuliani, then a former prosecutor, “stood on a car [during the 1992 PBA protests], leading obscene chants through a bullhorn.” He defeated Dinkins in the next year’s mayoral election. Bill de Blasio has more recently provoked their ire, starting when he campaigned for mayor as a police reformer — a label that, for all the hostility it earned him, his subsequent conduct did not merit.
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