The Former Mesquite Cop Behind the Power of the Dallas Police Union
The
New York Times writes about Ron DeLord, the ‘architect’ of the strategy that has created the nation’s powerful police unions
By Peter Simek
Published in
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March 12, 2021
11:26 am
Ron DeLord has been the Dallas Police Association’s strategic enforcer for years. A new profile in the
New York Times shows how DeLord has pioneered a simple and direct approach to ensuring that the police unions he represents get the benefits and protections they seek: “He has likened a police union going after an elected official to a cheetah devouring a wildebeest, and suggested that taking down just one would make others fall in line.”