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Pension is 50% after twenty years, and 2.5% for every year after that. Police contribute 9.5 percent of their pay towards the pension fund and the city matches it 2 to 1 ratio.

It's called a 401K. Look into it. I have one that my employer doesn't match at all. My wife has one that her employer matches up to 8%. That's damned good in the private sector. You have a 2-1 match with a guaranteed (defined benefit) payout.

The private sector has no such thing. So even though you think it ain't that great, it's a damned sight better than what us working proles, who are paying your salary AND those matches, get.

As far as not being the 'enemy' goes you might try telling your peers that. Because out here what with all the stories of cops shooting family pets, tossing flash bang grenades into old ladies homes because of bad tips from "CI's", covering up botched drug raids, ad infinitum, some of you are taking on the distinct appearance of enemies.

You are preaching to the choir. I do not support criminal acts by law enforcement. I saw that video of the take-down, and it didn't look good. I don't know what transpired before the incident that would cause a response like that by the copper. Maybe he was justified, maybe not. Apparently the jurisdiction accepted some liability and paid the family.