The Thin Blue Line Police Unions know how to rape the taxpayers nationwide. Ask any department how many officers go off to retire on tax free medical disability retirements? These tax payer funded pension make police millionaires especially in California where they can get 90% of their $200,000 salaries tax free for the rest of their life.
It was either Gallager or Hewitt that had someone on exposing this I don't know what to call it.
Yes they retire a year before they are supposed too, and the disability pension is way better. Seems the ranking officers do it more.
Love to see the Lame Stream Media do a story about this that gets national airplay, but I am not holding my breath
Those “cops” you’re speaking of making that kind of money are mainly (not all, but most) part of the prison guard union payoff fiasco to Gray Davis. Most CA cops make nothing like that when they retire. Basically they get 3% for each year of service x their highest year of salary falling within the last five years or so. So, if they worked 30 years, that would be 90%. If their highest salary year was $50k, they’d get .9 x $50k /12 mos. = $3750 + whatever else they get toward medical coverage. Yes, still a very nice retirement, but nothing like the $200k you stated. Disability retirement works a little differently.