Posted on 09/13/2017 11:54:54 PM PDT by 198ml
Wonder why New York property taxes are sky-high, particularly in the Long Island and Lower Hudson Valley suburbs around the city? The Empire Center’s latest analysis flags one key reason: the astounding pay doled out to government workers in those areas — especially uniformed services, like police and firefighters.
For the second year in a row, the center found, 47 of the top 50 highest-paid local-government workers outside New York City were police officers — with five of the top seven on the Town of Ramapo payroll.
The No. 1 earner, Ramapo Police Officer Thomas Donnelly, pulled in $441,968 in the year ending last March. Four other Rockland County cops joined him in the top 10.
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Cue then the cop writing a sad story because the city is bankrupt and he wont be getting as big a pension....
These people never see themselves as part of the problem.
This is typical of liberals like DeBlasio. Talk tough on cops at the media level, and behind closed doors gives them every thing ey want and more.
Liberals like antifa and BLM are really fracking stupid. I swear they must be designed that way.
Everytime a liberal calls for a socialist revolution, it turns into a police confiscatory state and blacks and leftist end up faring worse in their sht holes.
“These people never see themselves as part of the problem.”
Roadcat is right on.
For those that don’t know, Rockland and Westchester Counties are picturesque suburbs in NY, with exceptions of larger “Urban Areas” of Yonkers & Mt Vernon. These cops don’t deserve, earn or merit in any way, largesse anything like this.
That “it’s the system” is horse-hockey.
Even THEY know it.
Maybe that’s why so many move to Florida as soon as they can. Escape the NY Taxes they voted for, and live large on the taxpayer’s back.
Good luck FLA.
Skyrocket the cost of living for a job that demands the employees live locally and stuff happens.
New York’s dumbest. NYPD and other regional cops are among the most unintelligent primates I have ever known. Some are like retards. But say a single word in argument, and you will have a very bad day.
In the small city where I live a police Sargeants base pay is around $76K and base cop pay is $48K, the city managers is $115K, and department heads and Chiefs is $105K. The the highest paid 8 employees were all 6 Sargeants and 2 corporals, then the manager, followed by 5 more cops then the department heads and chiefs.
Cops love that OT and will do anything to get it.
Yup, makes me wonder about that career choice. One of my neighbors is a retired fire captain - at 55 years old. $155,000 per year for the rest of his life.
The cost of living for such executive talent is very high. The property taxes take an enormous chunk of the remuneration. /s
It’s not just NYPD my friend... you have described about half of all cops in this country.
The only answer is bankruptcy....
Unions. Been that way forever. Soldiers make enough to qualify for Medicaid. Hey, maybe the dreamers will do it for 300k. Bargain, huh?
No cop or other government worker should get more pay than the military.
Someone on a similar thread at ZH said 18% of Connecticut retirees account for 1/3 of the state budget.
That certainly sounds plausible!
Repeating myself, the city of Atlanta former police chief is paid just under $800.00 per day pension.
Talk about corrupting the word “pension”.
About five years ago the chief of the San Francisco General Hospital Police Department brought in $500,000 after his overtime pay was also figured in.
they also found a Chinese janitor working in one of the BART subway stations who was making about $200,000 a year:
A video audit showed he would come at the crack of dawn, disappear into a little tiny closet and then he would leave after the sun went down.
he would do that everyday and he made a little over $200,000 or something.
Things are changing; drive through Rockland County and see how many homes are for sale. Like NJ just to the south, people with stagnant wages and/or McJobs have tired of paying for the gubmint worker caste with salaries & benefits unseen in the private sector for decades.
When places like Long Island have MS-13 gang problems (actual murders, not just millions of tattooed Hispanics milling about idly in former “nice neighborhoods”), then things are certainly changing. The “cash cows” (taxpayers) are finding greener pastures or aborting/contracepting themselves into extinction; hordes of Third Worlders wouldn’t pay $50K cops, never mind $400K cops.
“Why, in Gods good name, should a police officer make four hundred thousand dollars???”
That’s substantially more (more than double more) than most doctors in the country. I have great respect for the police, but that salary is ridiculous.
Yup, and a pension guaranteed by taxes you pay. I did the same thing. Ill be lucky to see most of the retirement I saved for.
If they are required to live where they work, they need to make a lot of money. I think the dems aren’t paying the cops enough.
/sarc, sort of.
It is very expensive living in New York and the dems need to live what they preach, so no sarcasm, the dems need to cough up more of their money to pay the cops.
Good deal for the person collecting the pension. Not so good for the municipality. He better hope they do not go bankrupt.
I live in NY - I regularly get calls soliciting donations from groups collecting for PBA’s and Sherriff assoc.
I politely tell them that while I respect police, only government employees have any guarantees - guaranteed employment, guaranteed health-care, guaranteed retirement, guaranteed disability - the rest of us are set adrift in a sea of uncertainty and high taxes.
The caller usually has hung up by the time I’m finished.....
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