how do big city cops vote?

[freepcrusher]

Obviously, law enforcement has probably been a republican constituency dating back at least to the McGovern era. But is there a variation between rural and suburban cops and big city cops?

I would always suspect that big city cops would be somewhat more likely to be democrats (although fancying a vote for a guiliani-like republican) because they are often pro-labor and many are members of a union of some type. Also, big city cops are obviously more likely to be racial or ethnic minorities.

[crypto-fascist superhero]

How their union tells them to.

[So rightwing that I broke the Political Compass!]

I'd expect them to have much lower turn out rates(much less idealistic)

[Senator Snowstalker]

D, but tend to support "tough on crime" candidates.

[Simfan34]

Golden Dawn, apparently.

[TJ in Wisco]

One thing to note is that police and fire unions tend to support Republicans and Democrats about equally, very different from other public employee unions.

This is one of the major reasons why Ohio's public employee union reform was more unpopular than Wisconsin's: the Wisconsin law exempted police and fire unions while the Ohio law included them, therefore ticking off a decent number of Republicans as well as Democrats.

[BaldEagle1991]

Republican. Although the HPD unions always support D's, I think they mostly go R since the GOP is the strong "law and order" party.

[Vasall des Midas]

Golden Dawn, apparently.

Wasn't there some kind of study that Breivik quoted about how, even though they don't actually vote according, 85% or whatever of police share core far-right values and opinions?

[Fuzzybigfoot]

I know the Seattle PD union endorsed Rossi for governor, and I think they endorsed him for the Senate too.  Kind of funny since they work for a city which gave both Gregoire and Murray over 80% of the vote.  lol

[Nym90]

Overall, a swing group, though leaning Democratic.

It's worth noting that police officers tend to be pretty strong supporters of gun control.

[BaldEagle1991]

It's worth noting that police officers tend to be pretty strong supporters of gun control.

That's because they have the authority to take them away.

[True Federalist]

11 posts and nothing really about presidential election results per se.  I'm sending this to the U.S. politics board.

[Free Palestine]

The most fascist candidate possible.

[Grad Students are the Worst]

'Round here, most big city cops probably don't live near the city at all.

[Tender Branson]

In Austria they are right-leaning folks:

In the last union elections for state employees in 2009, the Police members voted:

42.6% FSG (Fraction of Socialist Unionists, SPÖ-allied)
37.7% FCG (Fraction of Christian Unionists, ÖVP-allied)
19.7% AUF (Action Group of Independents and Liberty, FPÖ-allied)

In the last union elections for state employees in 2009, the corrections officers in jails voted:

39.4% FCG (Fraction of Christian Unionists, ÖVP-allied)
32.2% FSG (Fraction of Socialist Unionists, SPÖ-allied)
26.7% AUF (Action Group of Independents and Freedom, FPÖ-allied)

About 32.000 members from the police and correction officers were able to vote, turnout was about 90%.

...

You have to understand though that out of the 9000 people in Austrian jails, about half are foreigners. And in Austria's population, about 11% are foreigners. So, foreigners are WAY overrepresented in the jails. And as we have seen in the parliamentary elections in 2008, where many foreigners live, people vote FPÖ.

[Tender Branson]

In Vienna, where almost 80% of prison inmates are foreigners, some prisons like Austria's biggest jail Justizanstalt Josefstadt and their guards within the union have voted with about 53% for the FPÖ-union:

"Blue is the new Red"

Der FPÖ-Politiker ist AUF-Personalvertreter in der Justizanstalt Josefstadt, Österreichs größtem Gefängnis. Dort erzielte er nun 53 Prozent. "Aus einer roten Anstalt wurde eine blaue Anstalt", sagt Gerhard Puff, stellvertretender Chef der roten Justizwachegewerkschaft, wehmütig.

http://derstandard.at/1259281410361/Personalvertretungswahlen-Polizei-und-Justiz-Blau-ist-das-neue-Rot

[Kushahontas]

Golden Dawn, apparently.

Wasn't there some kind of study that Breivik quoted about how, even though they don't actually vote according, 85% or whatever of police share core far-right values and opinions?

wouldn't surprise me, given how many ego-tripping reactionaries are police officers