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Ohio Democrats handed power to police unions, and now cities live with the consequences
Bill Bush, The Columbus Dispatch
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As Columbus Democrat-controlled government remains locked in a pitched battle over whether the city s police union can influence the way officer-involved shootings and allegations of misconduct are investigated and discipline is carried out, it was their own party that gave the union its current power.
And since the mid-1980s, when Ohio instituted a sea change in public sector collective-bargaining laws, police unions have gradually shifted to the right on issues like gun control, concealed carry and availability of assault weapons  even as police are increasingly called upon to face off against sometimes heavily armed protestors at emotionally charged political rallies. ....

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