Just another one of America’s failed experiments. Oppression everywhere.
Not including the cop gang members making money on the side
these aren’t street cops, they’re senior detectives and admin. a sergeant makes about $125k with 20+ years of experience.
“The officer and detective group includes some supervisors, since LAPD’s own rank descriptions classify Detective II and III as supervisory positions. What the payroll shows is that nearly half of the people over $300,000 held officer or detective titles rather than sergeant, lieutenant or command ones. The Detective III at the top of this story was an example and not the top of the list, since a Deputy Chief II was paid $476,701 and two Sergeant IIs were paid $456,662 and $452,971.”
It’s a wounder what reading the article can do for you.
It’s a wounder what reading the article can do for you.
It’s also a “wounder” what working a 72 hour workweek can do for you when anything over 42 is time-and-a-half.
Yep. Cops in my town routinely make more than the mayor with overtime they stole.
https://www.divestspd.com/p/seattle-cops-caught-scamming-overtime
There’s a great pic of one of them sleeping in their patrol vehicle.
Wow. You’d think of all cities, Seattle would hold their cops accountable. I guess my understanding on Seattle was wrong.
Seattle has some of the worst cops in the country and we have for a long time. You’re thinking of weird hipster art and cafe culture, which does exist in a few neighborhoods, but the primary powers are big business like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Boeing.
Or my pet theory which is that indiscriminate hate from the public makes an agency worse, not better.
Why would you want to join an agency if you know the locals hate you?
Simple: If you don’t care what anyone thinks, or even enjoy the hate.
Obviously, that’s going to be a very bad egg.
Haha fuck off, they were shit and then people got rightfully mad at them. Bootlicker.
He’s not saying they weren’t bad just that instead of fixing things the police just hire wise people because they are the only ones that apply.
The implied alternative, that we should be grateful for the violent racists in the hopes that they hire better people, is unacceptable.
or pigs are shitty everwhere.
Yeah, it’s a shame you haven’t reformed them.
perhaps it’s time we just retired the slavecatcher service entirely
The US police hasn’t really been a slave-catching service since the days of chattel slavery, but it’s possible you have bona fide slave-catchers in your area if you’re not in the US. Why haven’t you done anything about that?
The US police hasn’t really been a slave-catching service since the days of chattel slavery
whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night.
[banal response with no reasoning to match yours]
300k a year and all of the free drugs you can handle. Other perks include blackmailing sex workers, strong arming food from restaurants, carefree drunk driving, and fantastic union benefits that “civilians” can only dream of.
Don’t give them free advertising!
Seattle had one (or more?) of them making over 400k with “overtime.”
SPD officers had a massive payday in 2024 owing to hefty 23 percent raises from the new police guild contract, which were applied retroactively for the past three years. Seventy-six officers made more than $300,000 in 2024, while nearly 400 officers cleared $200,000.
https://www.divestspd.com/p/nearly-400-seattle-cops-made-over
I think you have your answer in “NYPD four times the size”
LAPD has ¼ the people to cover almost as many people over greater distances, so the overtime adds up.
They’re having trouble hiring so the salary goes up too.
I’m not getting into whether more or fewer is better for the community. I will say that both need better training with emphasis on human rights and de-escalation.
LA and NYC are not almost the same size
Okay I checked again and although the Los Angeles metro area contains over 10 million residents the LAPD is only responsible for about 4.2 million of them, because for instance Beverly Hills and Santa Monica have their own. Meanwhile NYPD is responsible for about 8.5 million people. So that’s twice the number and you are correct. My point is not completely invalid however, because NYPD has 4 times the personpower. And there’s still the matter of distances.
I wonder how this compares to the LASD? SD has more gangs, right? Intuitively I’d also expect more embezzlement from them.
