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Bluenorthwest

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6. Policing is not even one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. 11.1 on the job fatalities per

Wed Dec 24, 2014, 09:25 AM

Dec 2014

100,000 officers. Loggers are over 90 per 100,000. Roofers, trash collectors, fishing workers and pilots are among the jobs that are way more dangerous than being a cop. Los Angeles starts cops in Academy off at 57,000 and they hit 60 the day they hit the streets as probationary officers. Sergeant rank gets 113,000 a year as base salary.
How much does your garbage collector get paid? Do Loggers start with a guarantee of 60K, do you think? Did it ever cross your mind to wonder?

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Open Letter from San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland Police Unions [View all] daredtowork Dec 2014 OP

Not one single admission marym625 Dec 2014 #1

it seems passive-aggressive for a press release foo_bar Dec 2014 #2

I wondered the same thing marym625 Dec 2014 #4

Yes - passive-aggressive daredtowork Dec 2014 #15

I don't know about the letter.... pipoman Dec 2014 #3

What does that rhetoric marym625 Dec 2014 #5

Which of these most recent cases include a shred of evidence of pipoman Dec 2014 #8

What? marym625 Dec 2014 #9

He was previously fired for racism? pipoman Dec 2014 #11

Not making "sit" up marym625 Dec 2014 #12

Well by all means....educate me....anxious to read pipoman Dec 2014 #13

OMG! marym625 Dec 2014 #14

Yet nary example... pipoman Dec 2014 #18

When you assume marym625 Dec 2014 #19

Two decades. ... pipoman Dec 2014 #20

Policing is not even one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. 11.1 on the job fatalities per Bluenorthwest Dec 2014 #6

Surely nobody would deny the inherent danger of confronting pipoman Dec 2014 #10

I would! daredtowork Dec 2014 #16

If they want reconciliation, they are free to start acting better any time. nt bemildred Dec 2014 #7

Yes, this is the part that makes me wonder daredtowork Dec 2014 #17