This is what scares me when I see police departments advertising for recruits as shockingly low salaries.
When you go dumpster-diving like that you are bound to hire low quality, maladjusted people.
Not in this economy.
The proper way to run law enforcement is as it has always been. Moderately low pay with little advancement. Fill it with young men who work it for a few years and then get out. Nothing else is financially viable.
The people who could be persuaded that another path could be viable are responsible for our unfunded public pension mess. And only those people. All of them. No exceptions even if they are Freepers.
We knew the math back in the seventies. Politicians promised someday the money to pay for all these increasing numbers of lifelong government workers would materialize. Idiots from both major parties were foolish enough to believe an obvious lie because they wanted it to be true.
It sounds so desirable. How can something that sounds so reasonable be wrong?
Because of math. Math doesn’t care. Math has no mercy.
This message has been brought to you by unpleasant reality.
I am pretty sure that cops are overpaid no matter what you pay them.