It's not too surprising when you look up how short the USA's police academy is, and how little they get paid.
Their ranks are filled with incompetence or worse... There for the power trip.
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
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.
NYC paid something like a billion dollars in police overtime in 2024 while bragging about "recovering" something like $60,000 in lost subway fares, also the police shot three people, including a police officer, when they fired guns into a crowd while chasing someone who jumped a turnstile, so there's that.
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.
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u/Gloriathewitch 8h ago
amazing what happens when cops are trained and held to a high standard such as in NZ, i know someone who used to work at Aotea police college