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.
Poor Piggie needs time to recuperate from a night of drunk driving and stalking women
I know you’re trying to circlejerk so forgive me for turning the lights on, but:
If you work 6PM-6AM+ and you have court at 8AM-12PM, then work starts again at 6PM, would you not be tired?
What about if your shift is 6PM-6AM+ and you have training from 7AM to 4PM, then back to your 6PM-6AM+ shift?
Both of those happened to me. No matter how much you dislike cops, they can’t be immune to fatigue to make you happier.
Wow, those are some terrible management practices. Sounds like the people who run that outfit should be fired and the whole thing defunded & shut down.
Agree with the first, but I’m not an anarchist so I can’t agree with the latter two.
But it sounds like you’ve conceded the point that fatigue is a very real part of the job, so even if we never hear from moldy_rice I’m glad you acknowledged it.
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]
Not including the cop gang members making money on the side
That’s funny… because before I come to check comments, this was exactly what I said!
This is why you don’t have free healthcare or affordable housing
Nah, it’s defense spending by far, especially when you factor in our payments to Israel.
Just another one of America’s failed experiments. Oppression everywhere.
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.
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!
Dang, wtf was I doing going to school to get a real job when I could just grift my way to a pension at triple my current salary?
Not shooting pets, for one.
Implying that if ZoteTheMighty became a cop, they’d just blast a bunch of dogs?
What? Are there other job requirements or something?
https://www.joinlapd.com/qualifications
Sorry if you were fantasizing that you’d get to shoot dogs if you joined, but that doesn’t seem to be what they’re looking for.
That’s one of the hobbies they look for with potential recruits.
Torturing animals in childhood is a sign that someone is more likely to become be a serial killer or a cop.
Torturing animals in childhood is a sign that someone is more likely to become be a […] cop.
Source?
Isn’t it that LAPD basically is run by gangs?
Isn’t that synonymous with police?
yes pretty much, they were a gang before gangs tookover. remember the gangland show.
I thought it was the sheriff’s department?
Hmm, seems you’re right. Some activity in the LAPD, but LASD is much, much worse.
Crazy, one of my coworkers quit and is now working there, I never did like the guy
I wonder how this compares to the LASD? SD has more gangs, right? Intuitively I’d also expect more embezzlement from them.
/shrug
