While I agree PPD needs cleaned up, having the Feds running the department isn't an upgrade and will have long term impact on the city. I live in a city that had our department run by the Feds and it hasn't been pretty for decades. Exchanging one government for another isn't the answer. What the Feds should be doing is Federally charging criminal officers in PPD and cleaning things up that way rather than taking over the department.

What would that solve? Unions don't run the departments. Are you aware of the issues in police departments prior to unions? Nepotism, good old boy systems, promotions and assignments based purely upon friendship/family, good officers unfairly treated or run off by corrupt leaders because they had no protections, ridiculous work schedules, etc. Perhaps you aren't old enough to remember those days but it was bad and those are primarily the reasons that police unions came into being. Are police unions now too political? Absolutely and have the cities and towns caved in and agreed to far too much to their public employees? That is beyond doubt. The real problem is that local governments do a crappy job of running their municipalities. Doing away with public sector unions won't solve the problem and would also be unconstitutional. Getting rid of most aspects regarding qualified immunity would be another good start to fixing government issues.

@@robertgates5164 they are as corrupt had the police officers themselves

@@robertgates5164they protect corrupt officers and promote the wrong individuals.

Well maybe if cops did policing the correct way and there wouldn't be a need for a consent decree

@@user-hj4uf9wz1z your definition of the “correct way” would be nothing but idealistic takes on how things should have gone, after reviewing them in hindsight. Keep living in a fairy tale.

@DefaultUser1790 you could maybe make that argument if they didn't have a pattern and practice of the cops doing it continously and not being held accountable for those actions but even that argument would be weak if you do it wrong you get in trouble documented trouble to show held accountable and then you don't do it again right

@@user-hj4uf9wz1z hey, feel free to keep pushing for whatever you think correct policing looks like. All you are going to do is continue to push people out of the profession, and replace them with even less competent people who are not guaranteed to be anymore compassionate, fair or reliable when an actual dynamically unfolding incident happens. If you truly fear that corrupt cops are everywhere, watching and waiting to entrap you while you’re going about your business, then I guess you can neuter them and enjoy the predatory behavior that always grows as a side effect from the people who take advantage of lax criminal penalties.

Every cop shreds the 1st 4th and 8th amendments of our constitution on every shift. They are, by definition, traitors to America. You can back the blue or the constitution, not both.