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The counties (At least the Long Island ones)are the place the police in New York (at least downstate) want to work. Nassau and Suffolk cops can make $80,000- $100,000 a year.

I really don't know about the counties just North of the city like Westchester,Putnam, Ducthcess, Rockland. I would assume they have their own forces but beyond those I don't know of any other county in the state that has it's own police force. Some of the larger cities and towns may have their own small forces but upstate is pretty sparse so those cities & Towns are few and far between so for the most part most of the state is policed by the troopers.

You gotta think what being a state trooper entails, You got to move sometimes hundreds of miles from your hometown and people that you know to the middle of nowhere where there is not much to do, There is very little crime up here so for the most part all you are going to be doing is handing out traffic tickets, People from Upstate tend to be Xenophobic and they tend to "Want to be left alone" so they are going to hate and resent you so you are not going to make any friends (Forget any chance at getting a girlfriend) so you will be lonely and adding to the isolation the winters up here which is from October to late April are very harsh (NYC & LI are sub tropical paradises compared to up here).

So you can see why someone who wants to be a police officer from the downstate area wouldn't choose being a state trooper as his/her first choice so the only reason why anyone from down there would take it is because they don't have any other options.

So yeah we get all the rejects (Recently I was pulled over by a trooper who I swear couldn't have been more than 5'0 and 100lbs) whose only goals to make names for themselves by handing out lots of tickets so they can get the hell out of here.

So they will relish the chance to boost their standing by making cigarette bust.

On a side note just to show they a'int the brightest bulbs in the box, The dumbest and most annoying thing they like to do often is set up checkpoints for seatbelts on the edge of towns which blocks the entrance in and out. This creates a line of traffic waiting in line for sometimes a couple of minutes which HELLO, Even if the driver didn't have their seatbelt on they would most certainly put it on while they were waiting in line.