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Your anecdotal evidence of someone winning despite this means very little, and is also very recent. Many DA's, especially prior to the Ferguson Riots, back police in attempts to get endorsements. For just one example, Kamala Harris as DA refused to back a bill trying to get a special prosecutor...

I didn't say they stopped the DA's from prosecuting, but that DA's, wanted to get elected and not wanting the police union mad at them, frequently don't prosecute. This was in response to a person saying that unions were necessary to stop malicious prosecutions of police, by the by. The reasons...

In my opinion, they are both corrupt as hell, but there is an argument to be made that since cops can kill and unions have a say over whether they get prosecuted, that makes them an order of magnitude worse in results given similar levels of corruption. Oh hell no they don't. Police unions are...

Eh, I'm fine with private sector unions. The public sector ones are problems.