Unfortunately, police unions such as the FOP have chosen, for the most part, to fight positive change and protect the status quo. In many cities, including Philadelphia, police commissioners have found it impossible to dismiss cops who've done wrong or have lengthy misconduct records. The union-fed lack of police accountability creates situations like the one in Cleveland when a cop was hired even after a suburban department had found him unfit -- the officer who later gunned down Tamir Rice. And yet despite their clout, the police union response to any dissent is often amazingly petulant, even childish, In Santa Clara, California, union officers unhappy with football's Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protests even threatened to stop protecting the public at 49ers games at Levi's Stadium there. Needless to say, in Trump these police unions have found their soulmate.