Seattle Police Department scheming to steal cops from the shrinking NYPD

The New York Daily News ^ | April 4, 2008 | MICHAEL WHITE

[Stoat]

Considering it costs about 20% more to live in New York City than Seattle, NYPD officers would have to earn about $80,000 to maintain the same standard of living as in Seattle.

I knew that things were getting obscenely expensive here in The People's Republic of Seattle, but I had no idea that we are only 20% less expensive than NYC....a sad testament to decades of hard-Left City administration here.

I agree with many of the posters at the New York Daily News site who are hopeful that this will spur a new look at Officers' salaries in the Big Apple....hopefully the city will begin to treat them better if they begin losing large numbers of recruits.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Seattle cost of living has skyrocketed the past decade due to higher taxes and government regulation.

[taxcontrol]

Can someone please explain to me how this is “stealing”?

[weegee]

Will the city of NYC be offering a refund on bribes?

[Stoat]

Can someone please explain to me how this is “stealing”?

Tabloid hyperbole   :-)

[BurbankKarl]

Poaching is more like it. Oh well, the NYPD officers will be bored stiff in sleepy Seattle

[Bender2]

RE: NYPD recruits get a paltry $25,100 annual salary while they are in the academy. Their pay jumps to $32,800 after graduation and tops out at $59,588 after seven years.

The didn't add in "the pad" and other graft--

[sionnsar]

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[Stoat]

Seattle cost of living has skyrocketed the past decade due to higher taxes and government regulation.

And I see no end in sight....from voting demographics, it appears that the city is becoming more and more Left all the time and so it will only get worse.

If new residents can get used to the climate here (New Yorkers will probably have an easier time than Arizonans) they will likely appreciate the scenery but it won't be long until prices are nearly indistinguishable from NYC....that's been the goal of Seattle city administrators for ages...there's a desire to be perceived as a "big city" and that's our ultimate fate.

[Clemenza]

As a New Yorker who spent two years living in Seattle, all I can say is that your typical ex-NYPDer will love the lack of an income tax, but will find the locals a little "odd" and more than a little, dare I say, "sensitive."

When I was living in Belltown, I felt like a bull in a china shop.

They will also miss good Italian food, diners, and people who have a concept of the passing lane.

[pepsionice]

The Seattle cops have advertised in Europe for GI’s as well...and I’m thinking that they have a fair turn-over rate...which makes me curious why a necessity exists for so many new cops.

[Stoat]

As a New Yorker who spent two years living in Seattle, all I can say is that your typical ex-NYPDer will love the lack of an income tax, but will find the locals a little "odd" and more than a little, dare I say, "sensitive."

When I was living in Belltown, I felt like a bull in a china shop.

They will also miss good Italian food, diners, and people who have a concept of the passing lane.

As a lifelong Seattleite (unfortunately) I agree on all counts.

You like Cannoli?  Don't count on the city's ONE Italian bakery (Borrachini's ) to have them available if you drop by; or for that matter for the place to be staffed by actual Italians....know-nothing kids from the 'hood and a surly attitude is the most you can expect.

 

As a New Yorker who spent two years living in Seattle, all I can say is that your typical ex-NYPDer will love the lack of an income tax, but will find the locals a little "odd" and more than a little, dare I say, "sensitive."

When I was living in Belltown, I felt like a bull in a china shop.

They will also miss good Italian food, diners, and people who have a concept of the passing lane.

[M0sby]

So...once upon a time (14 years ago)...I got married..
Decided I would like the AMAZING CAKE from Borrachinis for my wedding..
Went down there..
Waited in line..
Was SO disappointed to get the sorta discheveled (sp?)looking older man when it was time to give my order...
I asked him a ton of questions like, “Can you take wedding cake orders?” and other stupid and insulting things like that..
I REALLY, REALLY thought that he was one of the import Italian guy cooks from the back room...
Imagine my COMPLETE and UTTER embarrassment when he got tired of my inane questions and informed me that HE WAS REMO Borrachini...and probably he WAS capable of taking my order...
What a dweeb I am...
(but the cake was AWESOME..there were NO leftovers..)

[Chode]

be advised... the NYPD is NOT into the touchie feelie westcoast culture/lifestyle. careful what you wish for

[Clemenza]

Borrachini's is awful. There are a couple very good non-Italian bakeries in Seattle proper (including one on 1st in Belltown that used to go to, although the name eludes me).

Another thing ex-NYPDers must be careful of is the treatment of the homeless. You can just order someone to the men's shelter if they are harassing passersby as in New York.

[correctthought]

Oh, so is the surliness usual in Seattle? I noticed when I visited earlier this year, but I though I was just marked as a tourist or just unlucky.

[Clemenza]

Thoughts? I know that many guys who can't make the cut with the NYPD wind up down in South Florida. The better cops move down to places like Boca and become chiefs.;-)

Seattle is another world. These ladies and gents better be prepared for culture shock.

[Clemenza]

I tended to find that many folks in the Seattle area were very polite, though they didn't want to get "too close," if you catch my drift. The transplants from California tended to assimilate this as well, with that extra dose of Golden State douchiness (ducks).

Smiling, yet standoffish is the best way I can describe many of the folks I met. Nevertheless, I still made friends with such people, it was just a little difficult.

The folks who really PO'd me were the Cheech and Chong-types that would always be around whenever I needed directions:

"I need to get to the trail at Green Lake"

"What?"

"The trail at Green Lake?"

"Green aint here, man..."

[Stoat]

Oh, so is the surliness usual in Seattle? I noticed when I visited earlier this year, but I though I was just marked as a tourist or just unlucky.

If you're identified as being Conservative, yes...count on surliness and more...much more.  Don't park your car in King County with a Republican bumper sticker on it and expect to find it unscathed upon your return, and don't put a Republican yard sign in front of your house around election times unless you like cleaning egg remnants off of your porch and windows.

If you can avoid political conversations (hard to do, as for many on the Left, politics is their religion) then it's usually not any worse or better than anyplace else.

As to my post referencing surliness earlier, I was expressing that sentiment in the context of the staff at Borrachini's being mainly hood-rats.

[correctthought]

Thanks guys,

It was one of the cities my wife and I were thinking of relocating to get out of NYC.

I was wondering if I was being unfair. Anyway, I think we like Vancouver (WA) better.

Thanks again.