how police officers have used collective bargaining to shape their work environment? absolutely. i mean, staffing levels, you know, in my 32 years, i ve never seen management that agreed with the rank and file on how many people needed to be on the streets. just recently, mayor of camden said after laying off 44% of the police department that there would be no reduction in service. well, they no longer respond to minor incidents. crime is up in camden, and who wouldn t have thought that was going to happen, but yet they had the audacity to go on television and say that first responders and the citizens would not be in jeopardy. it is just absolutely not true. you know, public unions in this country and private unions have brought laws against child labor, workman s compensation, 40 hour work week, employee security, that was brought on by unions, not by management. your union, your membership is not hostile to republican party politics by any stretch of