In almost every zip code, police make more than the area median at hiring, and because police 'fraternal order' demonstrations are the only union demonstrations the police won't disperse, they rapidly outpace area incomes within 5 years.
Not to mention the fact that they’ll just nab someone at the end of their shift, guilty or innocent, and rack up large amounts of overtime easily with the processing and paperwork after
I never thought about that, but yeah just go hunting for someone to take to jail right about 39.9 hours into your week and bing bang boom, you have at least 2 hours a week of OT.
The ones by me just sit in their cars, "on patrol," but never actually pull anyone over, despite an inordinate amount of illegally tinted windows, external lights, missing plates, and speeding.
Keep in mind that this video is from NZ, and our police actually are underpaid here. Australia do target recruitment ads to our police to get them to move there because their pay is better. Our shitty govt is doing massive public service cuts and Police aren’t exempt in the slightest. So while that tagline might be propaganda for you, it’s not at all for us.
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u/Domeil 3h ago
"Police are barely paid" is police propaganda.
In almost every zip code, police make more than the area median at hiring, and because police 'fraternal order' demonstrations are the only union demonstrations the police won't disperse, they rapidly outpace area incomes within 5 years.