After close to 100 years, America’s largest police union will pass and not lend support to either President Barack Obama or Gov. Mitt Romney in the November election.

According to the Wall Street Journal:

The 330,000-member Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest police union, announced that it would back no candidate for president this year, the first time the group had passed on an endorsement in its 98-year history. The union backed the Republican nominees in 2000, 2004 and 2008, and backed President Bill Clinton in 1996.

The rebuff came less than three months after Mr. Romney met with the order’s top brass in June seeking the group’s endorsement. “We had a lengthy and comprehensive meeting with Mr. Romney,” said Jim Pasco, the group’s executive director.

The group’s president, Chuck Canterbury said, public safety and the problems of the criminal justice system, the real issues faced by the police union’s rank-and-file, were not a focus of either candidate.

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