Talk:Fraternal Order of Police

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[edit] Copyright Violation?

The History section and the FOP Star section are clearly copies of equivalent sections at the FOP website (http://www.fop.net/ and look at the About FOP pull down menu). Commets? I intend to delete them shortly. Pzavon 01:45, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism

Human rights group Amnesty International has criticized FOP for its vocal agitation for the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, raising concerns about the political nature of the death penalty in the United States. I'm going to add this section with the link to Amnesty's report. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engAMR510012000

-Andrew (sorry don't have a user account, don't edit too frequently)

Noting the criticism seems entirely appropriate, but the long quote seems to me to verge on non-neutral advocacy and I've removed it, leaving the external link reference. Pzavon 04:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. A lot of the rest of the article reads as though it was copy-pasted from FOP's website, I may make it read more encycopledically when I have some time. -Andrew 3:59, 18 July 2007

Agreed. I've found that at least two sections are direct quotes from the FOP web site. I went in a while ago to make one part more encyclopedic but haven't had time to fiddle with the other. Pzavon 05:18, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

-TrueHeart Shouldn't Criticism include comments about the organizations considerable telemarketing efforts. At least in my experience in Orlando, Florida, they have been far-and-away the most frequent telmarketers to the numerous phone numbers I've had over the years. Also see their offical position with the FTC regarding their "right to telemarket". http://ftc.gov/os/comments/dncpapercomments/04/glfop.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.170.156.121 (talk) 02:47, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Only two lines of criticism about this ultra-authoritarian, proto-fascist organization? Pitiful. And the FOP shouldn't be a part of the Organized Labor project anymore than the American Legion should be. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.233.1.78 (talk) 20:59, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Links to State FOP organizations

Is this article going to end up with a list of links to each of the state FOP websites? That seems to me to be inappropriate under WP:NOT and I suggest removing those state site links unless othere are a few of particular relevance. Comments? Pzavon (talk) 02:46, 27 January 2008 (UTC)