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San Francisco Police Department: Duties, Salary and Benefits

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Re: San Francisco Police Department: Duties, Salary and Benefits

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Post by pyrrhotech »

a police officer with 5 years experience typically makes over 200k total comp between salary, overtime and retirement benefits. Some make as high as $600k+ a year. Feel free to look up the public records if you don't believe me.

It's a much better paying job on average than being a software engineer

Edit: and I'm not saying whether it should or shouldn't be a better paying job than a SE, just noting the facts. Many are unaware. Sometimes I see guilt threads from engineers who make 150k. They are really behind the times in this area.

Re: San Francisco Police Department: Duties, Salary and Benefits

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Post by dannypgh »

nessup wrote: post #4
alexnewman wrote: post #2

112k seems pretty high for entry level work, considering they most likely don't have a college education, but maybe it makes it possible for them to live here

Police officers put their personal safety on the line daily. I think this compensation is adequate.

So do quite a lot of other people. Consider the rates of fatal injuries and salaries at http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-jobs-in-americ...

Re: San Francisco Police Department: Duties, Salary and Benefits

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Post by vosper »

It's not just the salary that is high - the pension benefit (as is typical for California) is astonishing: Up to 90% of salary at the very early retirement age of 58. These kind of pensions schemes are the reason many states (especially California) are experiencing budgetary crises.

Re: San Francisco Police Department: Duties, Salary and Benefits

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Post by rayiner »

plg wrote: post #8

These men and women are signing up to protect us, at great personal physical (not to mention psychological) risk. They should absolutely earn a living wage that enables them to live in the community in which they serve.

So do members of the military and they get paid half as much.

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Post by aaronapple »

This should be heavily publicized. Hopefully, by letting people know that they can earn a good living by being a police officer, the quality of candidates will continue to increase. Entering the police force still carries a stigma, IMO, particularly around not being highly intelligent or thinking for oneself. Those are likely the people we want as our police officers; I'm more than happy to have my taxes support such pay levels if we do attract those people to the force.

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Post by paulbaumgart »

rjknight wrote: post #19

It's worth paying for good, non-corrupt police officers. Better to pay them well and hold them to high standards than to accept lower standards for lower pay.

I have to agree: police bribery is so common across poorer countries and is so harmful to the rule of law. Better to err on the side of overpaying.

Re: San Francisco Police Department: Duties, Salary and Benefits

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Post by pyrrhotech »

rayiner wrote: post #24
plg wrote: post #8

These men and women are signing up to protect us, at great personal physical (not to mention psychological) risk. They should absolutely earn a living wage that enables them to live in the community in which they serve.

So do members of the military and they get paid half as much.

and cops all over the country who on average make 30-40k

Re: San Francisco Police Department: Duties, Salary and Benefits

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Post by prot »

I think the only way we could to tell if this is too much or too little is if we had a free market for protection services. Since we don't, we can only speculate. Maybe, it's actually not enough. I can't object anyone receiving a high salary, but if this salary is paid out of my own pocket with no consent of mine and with the police force regularly abusing their powers, then yes, I believe this is not just too much - this is outrageous.
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