Pat Lynch, the head of the NYPD union, has never met an issue on which he can’t be more wrong (usually opening his mouth to spout off nonsensical ravings). This time, it’s movie critiques of Quentin Tarantino because he marched in a rally against police brutality.

NY police union calls for boycott of Tarantino films https://t.co/WTr43FdSOY pic.twitter.com/LocbTepxeI

— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) October 26, 2015

Memo to Pat Lynch. Your union’s comprised of cops who take an oath to protect and serve the community. Far too many of them ignore that oath and abuse the powers vested in them - engaging in harassment, police brutality, and excessive force. Your union’s job is to protect all cops from those kinds of complaints - but the fact is that you’re also protecting the bad cops from their bad actions and consequences of bad actions and that lumps the bad ones in with the good cops who are doing a tough job.

Make no mistake, the good cops out there need our support, but we also need the bad cops drummed out of the NYPD since they cost the city time, money, and lives. A small percentage of NYPD officers are responsible for the vast majority of excessive force complaints. That has to be rectified, but the PBA stands in the way of getting the bad actors out of the force. That’s entirely on the union.