I generally agree with the ACAB sentiment, but they were being paid $22 an hour which is a pittance. I wouldn't do the job for that salary either.
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Pay depends on the area, if everyone else is making 13 then 22 is a kings salary. Should it work that way at this point? No but it does and being a cop statistically is less dangerous than my job.
I live in one of the poorest states in the country, and even there, 22 is barely above average. So that a fuckin' lie. This state has TWO of the most dangerous cities in America. Not even the desperate would police this shit for that money.
The article complains similar small towns were offering $30/hr
Small cities will often have a few high paid officers rather than a gaggle of essentially bag boys.
Do what job? Eat donuts in the only dunkin donuts in a 1000 person hovel and watch YouTube? Seems like a pretty cushy job for 22/hr. Let's not act like this place is the height of crime...
Don't ever make the mistake thinking that cops have a hard or dangerous job.
So right now with our current — trying to hire at $22 an hour, you're never going to see another person again walk through those doors. That's it," Smith said. "Unless you guys do a dramatic change."
Smith stressed the urgency of the matter and said smaller police departments he has looked into pay at least $30 an hour.
I wonder if these cops support raising the minimum wage.
I'd be a cop for that. A good one that doesn't just look for reasons to murder.
Yeah, except I know plenty of people who have gone into policing bright eyed and idealistic. Your coworkers are regular police who reinforce every bad thing you hear about.
None of those people in question lasted
Only good cops get fired and outcasted.
Finally, a city with good police.
Nobody wants to work anymore.
FUCK EMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
You're free. Do something other than police. You kinda have to, now.
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Part of the reason we have issues with the police force and their policing is that they aren’t treated like professionals and held to professional standards. We need to pay them like the professionals too, even if that means we hire less.
unfortunately same with politicians
Politicians should have the same income as they did before becominh politicians
This means they to get out and get a real job before going into politics. Seeing how things work.preventing dumb career politicians from having no clue how people live.
A lot of them come from money'd backgrounds. Would be easy to just get hired on a high salary from their own company or a family members company. Heck companies could use that to lobby even harder. Hire them on for a year at super high rate and then they get them in politics.
Or maybe the income for politicians should be on-par with any other civil servant. Post workers, trash collection truck drivers, state court clerks, natural park management, it's all civil services.
They argue that being a politician requires having tons of connections and being a "people-person," but that's only because they've made it that way over the past 50 or so years. There's nothing about being a politician that is so essentially different than any other way to serve a government or to help a government serve its people.
Politicians should have their assets placed in a trust for the duration of their term, to encourage them to not run repeated terms. Then the politician should have to live on the median income for their district - to encourage them to improve the entire district and not just their own interests.
So having resigned (quit) they are not eligible for unemployment, I assume.
I would not assume anything when it comes to unemployment. I’ve seen it awarded in all sorts of circumstances, including during a resignation.
I have quit and collected more than once.
Brb, moving to Goodhue, Minnesota
To do crime?
Contract out with the county. A city of 1000 does not need a full time officer let alone two full time ones and five part time officers.
Good.
Now the rest of police
from all departments
need to just do the same
and we'll be good.
Those pigs just needed to pull harder on those boot straps
Time to call a crackhead
Beats a racist with a power complex anyday. Although there is a significantly higher overlap than you'd think.
Nice, now do all other police departments in the nation.
Also, the absolute chads over in Powderhorn don't call the cops anyway, so they will be unaffected.
In other news spirits are soaring in Goodhue, Minnesota.
2 Full-time and 4 part-time employees quit. The population is 1,000 people. They should find 2 solid officers and 4 crisis workers. They will accomplish more for the community than the people that quit.
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