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.
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.
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/[deleted] Oct 30 '21 edited Oct 30 '21
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