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If you want police reform, you have to rein in police unions

JUNE 4, 2020 | by Will Swaim | THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Op-ed by Will Swaim, includes “… Take the case of Cecilia Iglesias. … By the time you read this, Iglesias will officially be removed from office, a victim of the Santa Ana Police Officers Association’s $500,000 recall campaign against her. Iglesias’s crime: She tried to reform her city’s police department. … In February 2019, Iglesias, a self-declared conservative, voted against the police union’s demand for a pay hike. ‘My reason was simple: we can’t pay what we don’t have,’ she recently wrote. …”

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