'Hell no': Some police officers and their unions oppose vaccination mandates

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : He also attributed some of the law enforcement hesitance to mistrust of the government.
47% : "The delta variant is not like previous Covid lineages, and unvaccinated people in their 20s, 30s, 40s or 50s -- meaning the ages that people are in law enforcement -- are going into hospitals," said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and a co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development.
40% : Higgins, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of the City University of New York, said police officers are not used to being told what to do, which might contribute to lower-than-average vaccination rates among officers.
40% : "We need the leadership of law enforcement to recognize that this is a dire public health crisis," Hotez said.
37% : "It's really unfortunate that a number of law enforcement are going to lose their lives because of irresponsible statements like that," Hotez said.
34% : "If they really do care about the health and welfare of law enforcement, they need to stop with the political pandering."

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