Asset seizures fuel police spending

Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by Karunamon on Sunday October 12, 2014 @01:36PM (#8445946)

Honestly I think we need that anyways. The average police officer salary is massively lower than the average systems administrator salary (or at least that's what some cursory google research tells me).

I'm no fan of police, but there is no way that's an acceptable situation.

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by discardorama on Sunday October 12, 2014 @01:45PM (#8445974)

> The average police officer salary is massively lower than the average systems administrator salary

Probably not in SF. Here the starting salary for a cop is about $85K, plus overtime. And then there's the lifetime healthcare and pension. It all adds up.

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Re:Asset seizures fuel police spending by tormeh on Sunday October 12, 2014 @04:22PM (#8446470)

Yeah, that's just asking for corruption. "The boss pretends to pay us and we pretend to work" is a situation you don't really want in the police.

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