text: It's not any harder to remove a cop than to remove any other public employee and that  isn't nearly as hard as it is made out to be.   The Troopers have an elaborate contractual administrative investigation process that tripped the State up several times, but that was thirty years ago.   The problem with removing a cop is having a management that wants to if the union backed the administration.   During Knowles, the union didn't need a grievance procedure; they had the Commissioner of Administration's phone number.   DPS resorted to giving reprimands for conduct that should have gotten much stronger discipline because the union couldn't grieve reprimands.   The bane of my life in dealing with Trooper cases during Murkowski was when we tried to appropriately discipline somebody, the union would trot out ten reprimands for the same or a worse offense and argue disparate treatment and/or discrimination.   I'm sure the same thing is going on now and Moneghan won't be an improvement.