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 wonder how this compares to the LASD? SD has more gangs, right? Intuitively I’d also expect more embezzlement from them.

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.

/shrug

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.

LA and NYC are not almost the same size

Don't give them free advertising!

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.

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?

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

trouble hiring= not too smart educated people, need some brownosers, and conservatives.

yes pretty much, they were a gang before gangs tookover. remember the gangland show.

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.

This is why you don't have free healthcare or affordable housing

Poor Piggie needs time to recuperate from a night of drunk driving and stalking women

Isn't that synonymous with police?

Nah, it's defense spending by far, especially when you factor in our payments to Israel.

Wow. You'd think of all cities, Seattle would hold their cops accountable. I guess my understanding on Seattle was wrong.

Implying that if ZoteTheMighty became a cop, they'd just blast a bunch of dogs?

Paperwork is still work. If you're over your time, you should be paid overtime.

Frankly, the irony in how poorly your comment was written has me in stitches.

I'm pretty sure you're accusing them of being dumb, hence the irony.

I know you're trying to circlejerk so forgive me for turning the lights on, but:

If you work 6PM-6AM+ and you have court at 8AM-12PM, then work starts again at 6PM, would you not be tired?

What about if your shift is 6PM-6AM+ and you have training from 7AM to 4PM, then back to your 6PM-6AM+ shift?

Both of those happened to me. No matter how much you dislike cops, they can't be immune to fatigue to make you happier.

Seattle has some of the worst cops in the country and we have for a long time. You're thinking of weird hipster art and cafe culture, which does exist in a few neighborhoods, but the primary powers are big business like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Boeing.

Sure, but they aren't actually doing their job. They're sleeping in their cars or working a second "security" job but double-billing the hours.

these aren't street cops, they're senior detectives and admin. a sergeant makes about $125k with 20+ years of experience.

Are we talking about the actual overtime or the abuses? If the former, my comment makes sense. If the latter, I guess they were just circle-jerking by saying "bad things are bad?"

Or my pet theory which is that indiscriminate hate from the public makes an agency worse, not better.

Why would you want to join an agency if you know the locals hate you?

Simple: If you don't care what anyone thinks, or even enjoy the hate.

Obviously, that's going to be a very bad egg.

if i pull more than 3 hours un pre approved ot i get an audit

1. Are you saying that's a good thing, a bad thing, or just stating it?

2. Do law enforcement agencies in your area have similar restrictions?

Haha fuck off, they were shit and then people got rightfully mad at them. Bootlicker.

Not including the cop gang members making money on the side

That's one of the hobbies they look for with potential recruits.

Torturing animals in childhood is a sign that someone is more likely to become be a serial killer or a cop.

Wow, those are some terrible management practices. Sounds like the people who run that outfit should be fired and the whole thing defunded & shut down.

What? Are there other job requirements or something?

That’s funny… because before I come to check comments, this was exactly what I said!

or pigs are shitty everwhere.

Torturing animals in childhood is a sign that someone is more likely to become be a [...] cop.

Source?

Yeah, it's a shame you haven't reformed them.

https://www.joinlapd.com/qualifications

Sorry if you were fantasizing that you'd get to shoot dogs if you joined, but that doesn't seem to be what they're looking for.

Agree with the first, but I'm not an anarchist so I can't agree with the latter two.

But it sounds like you've conceded the point that fatigue is a very real part of the job, so even if we never hear from moldy_rice I'm glad you acknowledged it.

He's not saying they weren't bad just that instead of fixing things the police just hire wise people because they are the only ones that apply.

Just another one of America's failed experiments. Oppression everywhere.

"The officer and detective group includes some supervisors, since LAPD’s own rank descriptions classify Detective II and III as supervisory positions. What the payroll shows is that nearly half of the people over $300,000 held officer or detective titles rather than sergeant, lieutenant or command ones. The Detective III at the top of this story was an example and not the top of the list, since a Deputy Chief II was paid $476,701 and two Sergeant IIs were paid $456,662 and $452,971."

It's a wounder what reading the article can do for you.

It’s a wounder what reading the article can do for you.

It's also a "wounder" what working a 72 hour workweek can do for you when anything over 42 is time-and-a-half.