[FireBeyond]

People often say "there should be a register of police offers nationwide that records officers who were terminated for cause, resigned in lieu of termination, etc."

And there is.

But in the very vast majority of police departments, the CBA with the police union prohibits the use of this register for hiring decisions.

[bumby]

>CBA with the police union prohibits the use of this register

Have they explicitly state why? It seems strange to the uninitiated that more information about the performance of the same job would be considered irrelevant.

[FireBeyond]

I think the union's position is that the register doesn't "discriminate" against officers who were terminated in spite of the union's "disagreement" that it was justified, and those who the union represented but recognized that the termination was valid.