When I think about unions in America, I think about issues like abortion or gun control.

You're either for abortions or you're not.

You're either in favor of gun control or you're really not.

And you're either in the camp of people who like unions or in the camp of people who think

unions are destroying America.

Except for police unions.

Police unions throw a wrench in the ideological divide.

Melissa Segura, you just wrote a piece about police unions for Buzzfeed.

Do I have that wrench in the ideological divide, right?

That's 100% correct.

It's even difficult and a little bit of a mindbender, I think, even for people within the

union movement themselves.

So what we have, at least in the US and our political landscape is typically, we think

of union supporters.

Those people tend to identify more on the ideological left of our political spectrum.

We'll see that through our maintenance workers unions, through teachers, in particularly

that represent a larger portion of the union landscape than ever before.

And then you have this one particular outlier, even within the union movement.

And that's that of the alphabet soups that sort of make up the various unions representing

police.

And what's crazy about it is that the right, particularly from Republicans, this is one

of the only unions they actually support.

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