A recent @planetmoney podcast on the topic of insurance as incentive for improving a California police forcehttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2&i=1000432957259 …
Camden NJ completely disbanded it's heavily unionized police force and built anew. More and better policing reduces crime!https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/better-police-less-crime-in-camden-nj.html …
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The new police force unionized a year after taking over and is smaller than the old one. It also changed a ton of policies including starting scoop an carry and moved from broken windows to community policing and increased other social services in Camden.
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the argument isn't about having a non-union force, but replacing a bad department, bad culture, and bad union contract with better ones. you're right about the changes in policies & practices, but the new PD did increase force size by 50%.pic.twitter.com/ZhmQSJDRI6
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And NB: this was explicitly because of the old union contract https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/nyregion/overrun-by-crime-camden-trades-in-its-police-force.html …pic.twitter.com/E2TB4oA5YD
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from the same article: "Camden reorganized its Police Department in 2008 and had a lower homicide rate for two years. Then the recession forced layoffs, reducing the force by about 100 officers." 1/2
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"Nevertheless, they expect that the new force will eventually become unionized....Officials say that simply adding officers will not make all the difference, given the deep suspicion many residents harbor toward the police." 2/2
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anyway, we all agree the old contract was bad and bloated post-recession and the old way of policing was flawed...but that's not being "heavily unionized"
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yep, no arguments there. but they needed the freedom to start from scratch because the old contract was a one-way ratchet that made it prohibitive to get force even back to where it was -- note the *raises* given out during the layoffs.pic.twitter.com/aFQXLECg9U
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This seems more like evidence austerity is a really crappy response to fiscal crises. But yes--some contracts are bad contracts. Philly's police union contract is a debacle, for example. But that's more about specific local politics than "heavily unionized" or not
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Maybe Baltimore should consider doing this as well. Start from scratch.
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