How many of you in the real world have the option to just announce your retirement and receive a nice pension for the rest of your lives?
One of them was a veteran of 20 years, so what he is 45 years old or so?
I'm not saying this is BS, I'm just pointing out that being a cop is still a government job and as such comes with some nice benefits that are difficult to come by in private sector.
That's sorta my story (sorta). I had a job that I liked, gave me a fair amount of satisfaction, and was stimulating. My plan was to work until 70.
Then I got a new boss who was a soul-sapping plick. He didn't want excellence and productivity - he wanted subservience and blind obedience. When he didn't get it he made life miserable for me. He deliberately did things to cause public humiliation. I tried to make a move laterally of upward but failed. So in the heat of a disciplinary meeting I short-circuited his bullcrap by announcing my retirement. It was worth it for the reaction I got from him.
Best "career" move I ever made.
Nowhere in their job descriptions did it state that city
officials would exclusively side with known criminals
against it’s officers. It wasn’t in the fine print
that officers would be jailed for using department
policies long in force in their department.
Nowhere was it written that officer would be blocked from
using equipment known to save lives. Nowhere was it
written that officers would have to stand there as bricks,
pipes. molotov cocktails, and lead bullets were sent in
their direction, after they were ordered to stand down
and not exert force against rioters and looter.
Officers have been seriously inured, beaten, and killed.
Now back to your diatribe on unfair salaries.
Are you writing for ANTIFA and BLM in your spare time?
I haven’t once seen cops out there recently and lamented
them being overpaid.