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Most cops make way more than 100k [/quote]
It is amazing how clueless people are about this. I have nothing against police at all, but experienced cops have salaries and pensions that are orders of magnitude higher than typical civil servants, especially if you consider the minimum qualifications. The biggest thing that pads these salaries is OT and they can pull lots of OT doing pretty basic things, like spending a full day sitting at the courthouse waiting to give testimony.[/quote]

Interesting.

I was getting ready to argue this point but looking into it it looks like this might be true.  I don't know enough about it to determine if it's just certain exceptions but it looks like there is a good amount.

I know several people who are police officers in other jurisdictions and when they used to describe their pay, I don't think it ever reached those levels.  Although one person did mention how you could get overtime while waiting in court and mentioned $60k.  But I'm pretty sure they meant that was total salary at the end and not overtime only.

I still wouldn't touch them on the minimum qualifications part though.  As there's no way I'd be willing to do the things that police officers do on a day to day basis.  Even if it has minimum qualifications, not everyone can do it or are cut out for it.

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