When people read in the news that NYC cops were starting at $26K a few years back, they were horrified. It turned out the more senior members had such outrageous demands (which were met by the city) that there was little left to pay new cops. Of course, with overtime they could drive up that salary, and in five years they themselves would be screwing the rookies out of a decent salary.
It was pointed out at the time of the Newark/Jersey City/Camden layoffs that those cities were being left with a middle-aged police force that could hardly be expected to chase down young thugs. The ethnic crowd complained that this left them in danger, but they were also concerned because all of those departments are probably more proportionately “white” than they’ve been since BJ Clinton was in office pushing the affirmative action nonsense. In my area in particular my town was forced to allow Newark residents to take civil service exams while Newark was allowed to keep a residency requirement for theirs; I’d think 90%+ of the civil servants let go (if seniority alone was the basis) were either black, Hispanic, or women.
Let me get off a pre-emptive “Women and minorities impacted most”...
Now would this be the Clinton "10,000 cops on the street" unfunded mandate to the states? (I guess that was an earlier version of keep public unions employed.)