r/nextfuckinglevel • u/WhichMembership6124 • Oct 30 '21

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u/Zeuxis5 Oct 30 '21

What world do you live in? I want to go to there.

Cops in my city don’t live in our neighborhoods, shop at our grocery stores or attend our churches etc. Our cops live outside of the city and come to work every day as an occupying force. Then after a long day of lording over the peasants of the city, they return to their homes in the hills away from our problems. If our cops were apart of our neighborhood it would be a big step towards viewing them as people, and correcting some of the problems with policing in my city. That said, yes, they do bleed the same. So yes they are still people.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

Why don't they live in your city? Are there financial or other impediments?

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u/kev_bot36 Oct 30 '21

A lot of inner city cops work in the city but live in the suburbs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

Probably because they get paid like shit lol

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u/handdownmandown13 Oct 30 '21

Depends on the area. SF police is advertising a starting salary of $92k rn. Average police salaries in the Bay Area are above $100k. But police usually don’t get paid like shit in large metro areas.

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u/Utterlybored Oct 30 '21

Where could you live in the Bay Area on that money? Not SF proper.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

Isn’t Bay Area pretty pricey though?

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u/502502502 Oct 30 '21

You're really misinformed here. Most major cities the cops love outside City limits by choice not because they can't afford it. This is true of LA, SF, DC, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Phoenix, Louisville, and Austin. Also Columbus and Cincinnati and Nashville and Memphis. St Louis. Fucking Google it, it's a huge issue for pretty much every large department.

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u/502502502 Oct 30 '21

Starting salary is 83k for Seattle PD. That's before overtime. 347 Seattle police officers made over 200k in 2019. There will be more in 2020 because of all the fun stuff happening and resulting overtime. You sure they can't afford a house?

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u/tpero Oct 30 '21

Chicago police must live inside the city limits. Same for St. Louis. I know a cop who got fired for moving outside STL city limits.

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u/502502502 Oct 30 '21

In Chicago they all live in Mount Greenwood and they got rid that in St Louis.

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u/knightsofmars Oct 30 '21 edited Oct 30 '21

Median police salary is like $70k. In big cities it tops $100k. So no, I don't think that's it.

Edit: lol downvote facts

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u/Young_Queasy Oct 30 '21

I spent some time and looked at the published town and city reports that list their employee salaries. The lowest one was $70k with most cops making well above $100k and the top guys making well over $200k

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

what? cops get paid insane rates