$516,000/year for a cop???

[MarkXIX]

What many of you don't understand about overtime and being a cop is this, judges and lawyers are the primary people at fault for cops being paid overtime.

I have several friends who are cops. When they have a case go to court, they have to be paid overtime because the PD can't afford to have them not work their shift/area to attend a hearing.

Once they get to court, they are at the mercy of the process as much as anyone. One of my best friends had his DUI case thrown out by a judge because he did not have the perp physically TOUCH the document revoking his driver's license. He showed the guy the document through the glass of the cell window, but because the perp did not touch the document, whole case got thrown out.

He spent hours in court only to testify and have the entire case kicked because of that little technicality. The judge believes that unless the perp touches the document, as in is physically given the document to read, he is not given due process. Funny thing is, the perp doesn't even have to sign or agree to the document by state law, but this judge thinks different.

 

[lurk3r]

but seriously, what happens if you don't tip your waitress the standard 15%, and who the hell let Fleabag create a 2nd account?

 

[Zeeky Boogy Doog]

I thought I would be more inclined to agree with the op when I entered the thread, but after reading through, I really don't see much of a problem here.

I fully support compensation for unused personal time, and I don't see a problem with accumulation policies as opposed to expiring policies that require you to take the compensation every year. Sure, you would be less outraged because you wouldn't have seen a 170k figure for reimbursement, but he would have gotten the same amount over the accumulation period anyway.

The top earner obviously works a lot, at least 60 hour weeks every week, and doesn't take much vacation time. For a big city, in California, doing a high level job like his, especially when he is apparently very reliable and very hard working, his base pay doesn't seem too far off the mark.

So, what would you have them do? Pay .5 time for overtime because otherwise he makes too much? Certainly they could have hired another man for the same position, possibly preventing the overtime work, but that's not necessarily as good of an option or an option at all.

Do you know what he actually does? Maybe the additional person would require them to sit in meetings for half of the week coordinating their efforts. Then you have two people only actually working 20 hours per week each, each needing to work at least 10 hours overtime to accomplish the work one guy did in 60 hours... except now you're paying for two people's benefits, paying the same base salary as they are currently paying one guy base and overtime combined, plus overtime, and the two people are accumulating personal days at twice the rate the one person was, so now that 170k they paid in personal time compensation will be 340k instead.

That's not even taking into consideration the possibility that this might have been an extraordinary year as far as his overtime is concerned, where they might finally be able to justify hiring another person, where in years past they could not.

Take the time to really consider the options...

 

[Vette73]

seriously, who is the far bigger danger to society: the black man who robs a liquor store and makes off with $200 or the cops who figure out how to scam $500000 a year out of the taxpayer

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[TallBill]

Omg, cops!

 

[Marinski]

there was just an article in the local paper about a cop sleeping on the job, here it is http://www.freep.com/article/20100427/NEWS01/100427060

btw just because you're risking your life doesnt mean you should be making that kinda money. There are plenty of jobs that you risk your life doing that make no where near what cops make.

 

[JD50]

seriously, who is the far bigger danger to society: the black man who robs a liquor store and makes off with $200 or the cops who figure out how to scam $500000 a year out of the taxpayer

It's almost like you ignore every single post that counters the points that you are trying to make and then just keep repeating the same misinformation over and over.