This is why you don’t have free healthcare or affordable housing
Yep. Cops in my town routinely make more than the mayor with overtime they stole.
https://www.divestspd.com/p/seattle-cops-caught-scamming-overtime
There’s a great pic of one of them sleeping in their patrol vehicle.
Poor Piggie needs time to recuperate from a night of drunk driving and stalking women
Dang, wtf was I doing going to school to get a real job when I could just grift my way to a pension at triple my current salary?
Not shooting pets, for one.
Isn’t it that LAPD basically is run by gangs?
Isn’t that synonymous with police?
yes pretty much, they were a gang before gangs tookover. remember the gangland show.
I thought it was the sheriff’s department?
Hmm, seems you’re right. Some activity in the LAPD, but LASD is much, much worse.
Crazy, one of my coworkers quit and is now working there, I never did like the guy
300k a year and all of the free drugs you can handle. Other perks include blackmailing sex workers, strong arming food from restaurants, carefree drunk driving, and fantastic union benefits that “civilians” can only dream of.
Don’t give them free advertising!
Seattle had one (or more?) of them making over 400k with “overtime.”
SPD officers had a massive payday in 2024 owing to hefty 23 percent raises from the new police guild contract, which were applied retroactively for the past three years. Seventy-six officers made more than $300,000 in 2024, while nearly 400 officers cleared $200,000.
https://www.divestspd.com/p/nearly-400-seattle-cops-made-over
“Overtime” doing “paperwork”.
Far be it from me to tell someone they’re maximizing their income but ACAB and it’s significantly in excess of what is reasonable.
They literally get paid to terrorize us
I think you have your answer in “NYPD four times the size”
LAPD has ¼ the people to cover almost as many people over greater distances, so the overtime adds up.
They’re having trouble hiring so the salary goes up too.
I’m not getting into whether more or fewer is better for the community. I will say that both need better training with emphasis on human rights and de-escalation.
trouble hiring= not too smart educated people, need some brownosers, and conservatives.
LA and NYC are not almost the same size
Okay I checked again and although the Los Angeles metro area contains over 10 million residents the LAPD is only responsible for about 4.2 million of them, because for instance Beverly Hills and Santa Monica have their own. Meanwhile NYPD is responsible for about 8.5 million people. So that’s twice the number and you are correct. My point is not completely invalid however, because NYPD has 4 times the personpower. And there’s still the matter of distances.
I wonder how this compares to the LASD? SD has more gangs, right? Intuitively I’d also expect more embezzlement from them.
/shrug
