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In reply to the discussion: You have got to be fucking kidding me... [View all]stillcool
(32,626 posts)63. cops around here make extra..
by doing the road work thing, and all kinds of events, event parking, etc. The reasons why cops across this nation are brutalizing and killing citizens has nothing to do with their pay. It has to do with their effing minds.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the average salary of a police officer is $58,320. That's for a BLS category that encompasses police officers and sheriff's patrol officers. Detectives and criminal investigators are in a separate category and earn an average salary of $77,210
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Make a standard for hiring and conduct and stick to them or fines paid via cops retirement and
uponit7771
Apr 2019
#3
We've been waiting for years for something like this data base, great post!
marble falls
Apr 2019
#4
They're are well known to look the other way when they know a man is beating his wife and or kids.
Texin
Apr 2019
#25
And their union is so powerful that it's almost impossible to fire a bad cop. nt
tblue37
Apr 2019
#28
+Remember when trump said he wished cops would rough up people they arrested ? As if
lunasun
Apr 2019
#17
True. We're back to Hitler's Brown Shirts--without the benefit of a DeLorean or a flux capacitor.
CaptYossarian
Apr 2019
#46
Yes, it's bad cops, but it's more about using the police and our criminal justice system to solve...
Yavin4
Apr 2019
#10
Exactly. The conditions that cops have to work under attracts a certain element to the job.
Yavin4
Apr 2019
#36
We've reduced education to a series of standardized tests which advatange certain learning abilities
Yavin4
Apr 2019
#65
Yup. But how much else was unreported, undiscovered, covered up, never investigated?
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2019
#27
I'm not blaming behavior on low pay. I'm saying hire more selectively in the first place.
MH1
Apr 2019
#66
Yes, ACTUALLY, they are #14 - right there in the article you posted. (USA Today article)
MH1
Apr 2019
#82
AND, SERIOUSLY !!! ** OSHA lacks enforcement (slips trips falls occupations); Overexertion??
MH1
Apr 2019
#83
The militarization of the law enforcement organizations is a real problem...
Wounded Bear
Apr 2019
#38
100% agree. We need to do this for all public servants. Cops, teachers, firefighters, etc.
MadDAsHell
Apr 2019
#58