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In reply to the discussion: White cops murder blacks=blacks are bad; Black man kills cops=race war [View all]puffy socks
(1,473 posts)140. Um yes 50 + benefits plus overtime as posted twice now. I guess cop apologists cant read either.,
Moreover, we pay our police officers handsomely in New York City. It costs taxpayers more than $8.5 billion a year to pay for the NYPD, and between salary, overtime, and the value of their benefits, the average beat cop costs the taxpayers more than $150,000 per year. That is not an argument for paying police officers less, just that we already pay these civil servants a lot more money than most people realize to do a job that is a lot less dangerous than most people imagine.
Here's the actual NYPD budget.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/OMB%202015%20Exec%20Budget%20Summary.pdf
Top base pay $78,026; total compensation $88,096 including top base pay, longevity pay, holiday pay and uniform allowance as of 7/31/2012. (Future contracts will be negotiated between NYC and the PBA.) This does not include night differential or overtime.
Starting salary
1st yr $45,673.63 after 5.5yrs $88,096.45
Additional Benefits
10 Paid vacation days during first & second year
13 Paid vacation days during third, fourth & fifth year
27 Paid vacation days after 5 years of service
Unlimited sick leave with full pay
A choice of paid medical programs
Prescription, dental, and eyeglass coverage
Annuity fund
Deferred Compensation Plan, 401K and I.R.A.
Optional retirement at one half salary after 22 years of service
Annual $12,000 Variable Supplement Fund (upon retirement)
Annual banking of $12,000 Variable Supplement Fund after 22 years of service (if not retiring)
Excellent promotional opportunities
Educational opportunities
Additional benefits are available to military personnel.
http://www.nypdrecruit.com/#benefits
now stop just cherry picking numbers and then claiming you're correct.
Of course it seems most of your gripe is that people are proving over and over that the hero cop is just a myth
very few are actual heroes.
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White cops murder blacks=blacks are bad; Black man kills cops=race war [View all]
bravenak
Jul 2016
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As it stands cops are all part of the problem because they are either a racist would be murderer
loyalsister
Jul 2016
#61
Um yes 50 + benefits plus overtime as posted twice now. I guess cop apologists cant read either.,
puffy socks
Jul 2016
#140
Good point. I still get chills remembering that hearing where family forgave him
Rose Siding
Jul 2016
#84
There is no race war. A tiny minority of Americans commit any sort of murder, let alone
Vattel
Jul 2016
#12
Today we had a black cop killed, all the killing needs to stop, it is a sad day when we lose so many
Thinkingabout
Jul 2016
#16
People generally hate the KKK and other white power groups. Nobody makes excuses for them
Joe the Revelator
Jul 2016
#34
Snapping happens when folks have no recourse. Give people recourse to hold killer cops accountable
bravenak
Jul 2016
#60
Patty Rollers were not systematically killing other people's 'property'.
Boudica the Lyoness
Jul 2016
#72
Yes. You would think I'd have been exposed to some shit considering the life I've lived, who I've
Boudica the Lyoness
Jul 2016
#82
Systematic injustice by the "justice" system isn't enough? The killing doesn't have to rise to the..
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#150
The GOP has been trying to start a race war for a long time, Foxnews is at the forefront
Rex
Jul 2016
#46
They really think we should deal with it silently and it upsets them that it will never happen
bravenak
Jul 2016
#56
I hate to say this, but most people have to have something personal happen to them before they
Rex
Jul 2016
#62
That was horrible. I remember that well...black people 'loot', white people 'find'.
Rex
Jul 2016
#63
For once I agree with you Now if you can just get off that all whites racist sui generis bandwagon
Monk06
Jul 2016
#81
There is a difference between a shooting that occurs in course of a police interaction
RBInMaine
Jul 2016
#137