State Police union chief: We want 4 more years

The head of the union representing 4,000 State Police troopers — a force overseen by Democratic Gov. Cuomo — is backing Republican President Trump’s re-election bid.

“Donald Trump has our back. President Trump has supported us when so many people have turned against us,” NYS Troopers PBA President Thomas Mungeer told The Post on the eve of the Republican National Convention.

“Joe Biden supported cops in the past but he’s turned his back on us,” said Mungeer, referring to the former vice president and current Democratic presidential nominee.

The endorsement comes 10 days after New York City PBA President Patrick Lynch lent his union’s support to Trump at an event with the president at his New Jersey golf club.

The bottom line, according to Mungeer, is that Democrats have swung too far to the left on criminal justice issues, leaning in the direction of criminal defendants at the expense of cops and law-abiding citizens.

He said the anti-police shift started before the protests and violence that erupted following the May 25 police brutality death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but has accelerated since then, including within the Democratic Party.

He cited one issue that separates Trump from Biden — the president supports qualified immunity, the doctrine that shields police officers from being sued civilly for misconduct. Biden has said he wants to reform the immunity doctrine.

“No one is going to want to become a cop if he faces frivolous lawsuits,” Mungeer said.

He added that “we don’t agree with what happened in Minnesota” and “we don’t want bad cops on the force.”

But Mungeer said it’s wrong to exploit one horrible incident and turn it into a broader “anti-police” movement and demonize all cops as abusers.

“We were all grouped together as bad.”