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A Police Benevolent Association, or Policemen's Benevolent Association, or Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA), is a frequently used name for law enforcement labor unions in the U.S. Examples include the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association, the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, the Ohio Patrolmen's ...
During the 1960s the FOP opposed the creation of police review boards, spearheaded by Robert F. Kennedy, at one point describing them as a "sinister movement against law enforcement". The FOP also clashed with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on the issue of police brutality, seeing it as a "liberal attempt to discredit law enforcement".
It was founded in 1978. NAPO represents more than 2,000 police units and associations, 241,000 officers, 11,000 retired officers and more than 100,000 others not directly associated with the police. NAPO sponsors the Top Cops award for outstanding achievements by individual police officers. [1] Bill Johnson is Executive Director. [2]
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The PBA issues cards to its officers that read "The bearer of this card is a supporter of the PBA, and you should try to extend every courtesy possible." [ 36 ] Prior to 2018, officers were allowed to receive a maximum of thirty cards and retired officers a maximum of twenty; this has since been reduced to twenty and ten, respectively. [ 37 ]
It's organized into regional chapters: the South Florida PBA, with 6,500 members from over 40 agencies; [3] the Big Bend PBA, with almost 500 members; [4] West Central Florida BPA; [5] the Broward County PBA; [6] and others. The FBPA is one of several significant state-wide police unions which are "dominant in all but the largest cities".
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In 1966, Canadian associations were allowed to join, and the name was changed to International Conference of Police Associations, and later to International Union of Police Associations. [16] IUPA was founded in 1979 as a national union under AFL–CIO , reported to have 51,000 members by 1979/1980, and said it represented over 100,000 members ...