Pubdate: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 Source: Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Copyright: 2009 Canoe Limited Partnership Contact: http://www.winnipegsun.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/503 Author: Mike Foster Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor. POLICE UNION 'MANIPULATION' Re: 'Fund more officers,' Letters to the editor, Nov. 6. Would we listen to a tobacco worker union telling us tobacco is safe and should be consumed in greater numbers? Letter writer Steek explains clearly how public perception is manipulated by police unions to scare the public into giving them more and more money -- always more money. The public says their number one concern are gangs and violence, while the police union spokesman is on his podium decrying the dangers of gangs and violence. Gangs are funded by the prohibition artificially inflating the cost of certain drugs and herbs. Violence comes from them fighting over their marketable "turf." How come police unions are one of the only groups left pushing for more prohibition and they are also the main non-criminal benefactor of prohibition, as it's job security, ever-increasing budgets, and relatively easy work. This should be common sense. MIKE FOSTER LAVAL, QUE. (That's what unions do, ask for more.) - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D