The Goodhue Police Department resigned due to issues with the city’s pay, Mayor Ellen Anderson Buck said at a city council meeting Monday.
Now who’s going to harass brown people and shoot dogs?
And nothing of value was lost.
Entire “city” has 1,176 people in it. That requires one cop.
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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 mean in fairness, our local McDonald’s is paying 16-18 an hour… So getting 22 to do a job that most people wouldn’t want to do and forces you to deal with people you’d normally try to avoid, doesn’t sound like a hard ask.
So getting 22 to do a job that most people wouldn’t want to do and forces you to deal with people you’d normally try to avoid
Are you talking about working at mcdonalds or being a cop?
Yes.
Nobody wants to work anymore.
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FUCK EMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
You’re free. Do something other than police. You kinda have to, now.
I’m all for police reform, but you “fuck the police”/ACAB types are just anarchist idiots with serious inferiority complexes. Nothing in this article said anything about the police in question being corrupt of abusive of their power. They were just underpaid.
Police, in America. You clearly haven’t had any real interactions with them.
From the U.S.
A lot of interactions with police, very positive overall. Biggest issue I ever have had was having to wait over a holiday weekend to get a 1st hearing before being released.
Using the ACAB terminology is a gaurenteed way to ensure racism and bad treatment are fixed at a way slower pace.
Edit: my thought process… Anyone who wants to help change or becomes a cop trying to better the system you are already classifying as a bad person. So now they are trying an up hill battle against people that don’t like them bringing reform, fighting for people that don’t like them and call them names when they’re never met them. Eventually you imagine they give up on the reform because it’s easier and the same pay, and at least the people around them start to like them.
You white, we get it.
Found the cop, family of cop, or regularly beaten “pick-me” wife of cop.
Adequately paid when you account for all their OT and other forms of compensation. plus the perks of being unfirable and immune to 99.9999999999% of prosecution. Since police corruption is systemic, and these cops are a part of that system, these cops are by definition corrupt.
Sure, they’re the one non-corrupt, non-abusive police force in America. Plausible.
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.
If we demand higher police pay, we better be raising EMT, social work, and teacher salaries too.
And yes, I know this is whataboutism, but it feels wrong to fund police while some of the support system workers that prevent crime in the first place would be thrilled to be making the hourly rate these cops were.
The posted article complains they were offering $22/hr when similar towns are offering $30/hr. Here’s another article (from 3 years ago) that ranks average police salary in Minnesota as pretty high, just behind Massachusetts, which has a much higher cost of living. seems reasonable to complain is pay much lower than state average or typical of their peers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/police-officer-salary-state/?sh=72e0096b2010
Oh, I definitely think we need to raise those too. These systems are all needed and aren’t attracting the minds they should because we aren’t paying them.
Police make hundreds of thousands of dollars with overtime in many places even low level officers.
Source? Is this really a common enough thing, or just an edge case? How much overtime is required? What about the $20-something/hour mentioned in the article?
This is a problem in Massachusetts, because we require officers for every road construction project, instead of flaggers, but I also thought this was an exception
Brb, moving to Goodhue, Minnesota
To do crime?
Those pigs just needed to pull harder on those boot straps
Good.
Now the rest of police
from all departments
need to just do the same
and we’ll be good.
That will happen when you don’t pay people. They aren’t a charity. (And even many charities pay their employees.)
Time to call a crackhead
Beats a racist with a power complex anyday. Although there is a significantly higher overlap than you’d think.
In other news spirits are soaring in Goodhue, Minnesota.
