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"You mean I get to escalate a safe situation, completely disregard public safety, and I get paid extra for it?!"
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The fact that they get overtime pay, and extravagant overtime at that, is a thing that makes me immediately twitchy.
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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.
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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.
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And how much did they save by shortening library hours?
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Oh that was pure embezzlement. That library money went straight to the piggys.
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How many fare evaders do you think they've caught since then? 🤔
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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
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protection's a hell of a racket
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That candy isn't going to crush itself.
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Not to mention all the secondhand military ordinance this lets them justify
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One of the only things that keeps NYC from being a fully-mad police state is that cops are lazy assholes.
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Sick, twisted incentives here.
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If only the requestors/chancellors would honor & obey constitutional rights collectively. Always about the money.
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So dark. Not disagreeing, just wow.
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You couldn't pay me to live in NYC right now. Signed a Chicagoan.