Posted on 04/04/2006 6:16:53 AM PDT by rellimpank
Risk your life for peanuts? New York and other cities are finding few takers.
Are you looking for a job with low pay? Does the idea of working miserable hours appeal to you? How about working weekends and holidays? Is the daily risk to life and limb on your checklist of must-haves for your next job? If so, the New York Police Department has a job for you.
Last month Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced an expansion plan that will put 1,200 more officers on the streets of New York. The plan calls for the hiring of 800 cops and an additional 400 civilian employees who would take over desk jobs currently held by police officers. The proposed expansion comes after a five-year decline in the number of officers on the NYPD, from 40,700 in 2001 to about 37,000 today. Bloomberg and Kelly hope the added officers will keep the city's crime on the downward trend seen over the past several years
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Hire mexican illegals!
Jobs at low pay and no one to fill them? This sounds like an opportunity to hire about 1200 illegals.
I thought most NYC police pay came from graft.
--surprisingly, the Las Vegas ones seem to stay fairly clear of it--at least relative to county commissioners, etc.,---
I was thinking they could hire MS13 members and cut the courts and jails out of the equation all together.
That's only a little better than what teachers are paid in South Dakota, which has the lowest teachers salaries in the nation and a cost of living far less than New York.
--a cop in Vegas after a years emp;oyment, with some OT, would be near the $60K mark--
Who wants to be a policeman when you every act on the job is subject to review by political committees?
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