Sounds corrupt but they're the police so...I guess not?
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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Law in the US ceased to exist on January 20, 2025. The rest of us are just going through the motions until the reality catches up. (So, while in the past, something might have happened, now, they will get medals.)
It seems the whole world is at a fork in the road...rule by law or rule by power.
Okay, fuck it, I'm getting out of this software engineering thing, I'm moving to the US to become a cop. I think I'm white enough for Trump, definitely whiter than he is.
I've eaten oranges whiter than he is
Here's a test for you:
There's a chunk of cash in an envelope. Do you take it?
A non white person could be close by at any moment, are you fearing for your life?
You're walking outside and you hear a dog bark in the distance. Are you shooting wildly in the basic direction of the sounds?
You've just killed an innocent person and been given a ~~paid holiday~~ whoops, I mean 'suspension', where would you like to go?
Hmm... If I find the envelope, yes. If someone is handing it to me as a bribe, no.
No
No
Hawaii maybe? Weather seems nice, same for the nature. Nice place to get your thoughts off murder.
The problem is not getting paid overtime for time spent working wtf. The problem is being the fucking worst??
3000 hours OT would mean over 5000 hours worked or 14 hours every damn day of the year.
#doubt
Even if true, that’s terrible management from a budgetary view (they could hire a second person for less cost) and an operations view (stretching a “high stress” position very thin).
terrible management from a budgetary view? are you kidding? where are we supposed to spend all this money? feeding the poor? housing people? if we do that, where will the cops find the resources to arrest people for feeding the the poor and also shoot the homeless? they work so hard.
They are almost certainly not actually working that much though. Look up the recent Massachusetts state police overtime scandal.
We need to cap police OT. They are making off like bandits.
Best part is, they're either overreporting it, or they're legitimately dangerous to society from being so overworked in a job that already seems to put them on edge.
I have no quarrel with people being paid for their overtime (in fact, it would be shady for overtime to NOT be paid out), but I don't think 19 hours of overtime per week over the course of an entire year (or 20 if they take 2 weeks off a year) for police officers is OK. Tbh I don't think it's OK for anyone who doesn't earn dividends or bonuses based on company profits, but it's even less OK for police.
If I worked 5 hours overtime every week for a year, my entire combined income would be less than what these guys make in 2 months ):
Nah they definitely take it all. Usually just parked out side a gated community taking a nap or "working" the sideline at a sporting event or any number of other bullshit like "helping" at the dui checkpoint in the middle of the night chilling in the big air conditioned trailer maybe also napping. My buddy is a statie in another state overtime is plentiful but not actual hard police work like overtime at your job is just more of your job. For police it's just paid hang out
Honestly, that wouldn't even be so bad if the majority of them weren't dicks.
I totally agree that the current institutions that are US police forces are terrible at best, having a police force in general is needed. Unless you're talking about anarchy which while interesting, is a completely different conversation.
True heroes, these rich cops. Not like schoolteachers, who are suspicious villains and possibly freeloaders, am I right?
*sigh
Not incentivizing our teachers/academics/social workers but highly incentivizing cops is going to devastate our country's output soon.
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