markyymark13
markyymark13 t1_jairvr3 wrote
Reply to comment by GlitteringHighway in New York Will Pay Millions to Protesters Violently Corralled by Police by mowotlarx
Why? So we can funnel even more money to the police to offset the absolutely absurd insurance premiums cops would have to pay? No thanks. Let's not add a market-tested, for-profit middleman as some kind of 'solution' to a deeply rotten and systemic problem.
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Reply to comment by DerrikeCope in Mt. Tahoma. Photo taken at the Nisqually Reach Nature Center. by Brickmat
Okay grandpa let's get you to bed
markyymark13 t1_jcztlgk wrote
Reply to comment by Grass8989 in NYPD Blows Overtime Budget by Nearly $100 Million, On Pace for Record | The New York City Police Department’s budget overage defies a pledge by Mayor Eric Adams to cut overtime spending by half in his first year in office. by bloomberg
A majority of cops here in Seattle are making well over $100K. The city has done everything from hiring bonuses to paying them crazy salaries to the point that many police officers here some of the highest paid public employees.
And despite all that, we're still really short of police officers. So maybe pay isn't the end-all-be-all solution many think it is. Have you considered the idea that people simply don't want to be a cop? At least not in its current form?