Here is a quote from the Fox news piece on a new John Kerry endorsement, the whole story is here:
Presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry on Friday collected the endorsement of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, a police union that backed President Bush in the 2000 election.
"After three and a half years of disappointing leadership under George Bush, we need to change course in November and elect a president with a real record of supporting police officers and a lifetime of standing with law enforcement," IBPO President David Holway () said in a statement provided by the Kerry campaign.
Now I was a LA Police Officer for a while and have some experience with "police unions." First of all they are not interested particularly in Law Enforcement as a primary reason for their existence. Their main political goal is to continue to reinforce and strengthen labor laws and collective bargining laws. I quit the LAPD union when I got fed up with all of the ploitical contributions going to nothing but liberal democrats, who were really weak on crime, but really strong on passing more laws helpful to unions.
All that to say, whenever you see "police unions" making poliical endorsements, remember that they do not reflect the political views of about 80% of the actual police officers on the street.