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The police are defunding us.

The new Minneapolis Police Department contract would push officers' *starting* pay to $92,000 by next summer. Starting salary for Minneapolis Public School teachers will be $51,000 for 2024-2025. minnesotareformer.com/2024/06/21/u...

Union contract would increase MPD budget by millions, push police salaries past most peers • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Minneapolis is considering giving its police officers historic raises of nearly 22%, pushing their pay to among the highest in the nation, even as state and federal officials are forcing the police de...

maybe things would improve if police departments were overtaken by teachers

the other way around is much more likely to happen

they want it so bad with their whole "arm the teachers" nonsense

We should just unite the job descriptions. Then we'd get a good guy with a gun in every classroom and a productively cowed populace. I am all about the win-wins.

Only if they get both salaries

I thought that was implicit, but you're right, that goes directly into the union contract.

Maybe things would improve if all the teachers had guns and the politicians knew it

And in some places they require less training hours than a hairdresser does.

Well, under American law hairdressers are allowed much heavier armament so I can see how it might be different.

Maybe we should see what’s changed since the MDHR and DOJ reports a few years ago before anyone there gets a higher rate of pay.

www.vox.com/2023/12/23/2...

Police are solving fewer crimes. Why?www.vox.com Three years after demands for police reform, police are solving fewer crimes. What happened?

Put in perspective, that’s nearly twice what I was making as a medicine resident (MD completed) in MPLS.

I was going to comment that people do not routinely shoot at teachers, but that stance is no longer valid.

They don't routinely shoot at thugs with badges, either. Only 378 out of more than 70,000 police were shot in 2023, according to the FOP (which would have a vested interest in selling as big a number as possible).

378 Officers Shot in the Line of Duty in 2023fop.net Patrick Yoes, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, released the following statement regarding the National FOP’s year-end report on officers shot and killed in the line of duty: […]

I mean sure they're paid a lot, but they're also armed and can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

See? It's like that win-win I keep talking about.

Pay teachers and get the kids before the police can

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Ours were only making like 40k a year and it was a struggle to hire at that amount…. Prob cause all these big cities pay like this.

And the teacher's don't get to shoot the students if the kids annoy them and don't follow orders.

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