Having fewer cops is asking cops to take pay-cuts.
Not using cops for protests is asking cops to take pay-cuts.
It's never going to happen. Never. Makes me so mad.
My uncle was a state cop in PA, was able to retire comfortably at 55, and because he'd padded his overtime during his last two years of "service," his pension and benefits were based on a massively inflated income.
that's on top of the $11 billion a year they receive in addition to the police brutality settlements that come without full transparency or a modicum of consequence