Posted on 07/28/2009 3:46:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The city of Los Angeles was awarded a $16.3-million, three-year grant today for 50 new police officers as part of the nation’s federal economic stimulus package.
But city officials had hoped to be able to hire up to 450 officers through the program to help flesh out the city’s police force.
The Justice Department was flooded with applications for $8.3 billion in grants and 39,000 officers -- leading the agency to cap the number of officers awarded to individual agencies.
At the time L.A. officials applied for the grant they did not know that federal officials were going to institute a cap of no more than 50 officers per city or the equivalent of 5% of the city's existing police force.
In a terse statement, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said: “The city of Los Angeles is grateful for the federal government’s support of our effort to grow the Los Angeles Police Department.”
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Sign right there back by that pig’s asshole, ASSHOLE!
That works out to $108,000/policeman/year
I’m thinking that is high for new recruits. No?
And what happens at the end of 3 years?
no cause it my include training
108,888.88 per year per man?
By that time Obamas brown shirts with those gay looking bow ties will all be in place
As someone else wrote it may include training costs. If not then it's probably the cost of a 'fully loaded' or 'fully burdened' officer; salary plus benefits plus any overhead expenses that are broken out per man.
The cost of hiring a new employee is not just salary. To start with there are the costs of fringe benefits such as retirement contributions and health insurance, which are probably an additional 35 percent in California.
Then there’s the overhead costs of having an employee. You have to have desk space for them, office supplies, patrol cars, gasoline to run the cars, clerical support. To be honest, $108K/officer seems pretty reasonable.
This allows the city to use the grant as a "nose under the tent." I haven't looked at this particular grant, but most require the positions to remain staffed after the grant period is over. If the position is eliminated, the city has to repay the grant to the Feds. That means it's cheaper to keep the officers on staff after that than to pay back the grant. Also, these have to be new positions, not replacements for retirees, etc. I've known several cities to turn down similar grants because they knew they couldn't provide the funding after the grant period expired.
Course, LA doesn't have any fiscal problems, so it will all work out.
No problem you do not even have to be a citizen for the police force.
Is it just me or creating govt jobs, eventhough we need police, just using our tax money over again. IMO private sector careers is what would place money back into the econony.
Columbus, Ohio got funds for 50 officers as well.
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