Police unions have used their influence to establish unfair protections for police officers in their contracts with local, state and federal government and in statewide Law Enforcement Officers' Bills of Rights. These provisions create one set of rules for police and another for civilians, and make it difficult for Police Chiefs or civilian oversight structures to punish police officers who are unfit to serve.
Source: Check the Police / Campaign Zero
Police Emails ✔️
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Demanding fair police contracts
Hello,
My name is ❗insert name❗. I am a resident of ❗State/City❗ and I am emailing today to demand fair police contracts.
1. Remove barriers to effective misconduct investigations and civilian oversight
I am calling to end policies that:
-allow officers to wait 48 hours or more before being interrogated after an incident
-prevent investigators from pursuing other cases of misconduct revealed during an investigation
-prevent an officer's name or picture from being released to the public
-prohibit civilians from having the power to discipline, subpoena or interrogate police officers
-state that the Police Chief has the sole authority to discipline police officers
-enable officers to appeal a disciplinary decision to a hearing board of other police officers
-enable officers to use the contract grievance process to have an outside arbitrator reverse disciplinary decisions and reinstate officers who have committed misconduct
-prevent an officer from being investigated for an incident that happened 100 or more days prior
-allow an officer to choose not to take a lie detector test without being punished, require the civilian who is accusing that officer of misconduct to pass a lie detector first, or prevent the officer's test results from being considered as evidence of misconduct
2. Keep officers' disciplinary history accessible to police departments and the public
I am calling to end policies that:
-expunge or destroy records of past misconduct (both sustained and unsustained) from their disciplinary file
-prevent their disciplinary records from being released to the public via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request
3.Ensure financial accountability for officers and police departments that kill or seriously injure civilians
I am calling to end policies that:
-require officers to be given paid administrative leave or paid desk-duty during an investigation following a police shooting or other use of deadly force
-prevent officers from receiving unpaid suspensions as discipline for misconduct or allow officers to use vacation or discretionary time to pay themselves while on suspension
-allow officers to receive paid leave or paid desk-duty after being charged with a felony offense
Sources: [Check the Police](<https://www.checkthepolice.org/#project>) / [Campaign Zero](<https://www.joincampaignzero.org/contracts>)
Sincerely,
❗your name❗