Police need to be held to a high bar. They are well paid and in a position of great authority. No officer should even think that this is acceptable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
I'm not asking for cops to be held to higher standards. Just equality under law. Either lower the bar for us or raise it for them, I don't care.
A higher bar would be nice. But equality under law would be a nice start.
Edit: Reading comprehension issue on my part...I wrote this comment before my first cup of coffee. As others have pointed out, the parent comment does mention pay, and I was wrong about the parent comment. I stand by the core message in my comment about pay in general, but clearly I missed the mark here.
>> I would argue that they are absolutely nowhere near paid enough
> The subject of pay has no bearing on . . . the parent comment
I don't know about you but the curriculum absolutely wasn't the same each year with my teachers, it couldn't be.
Beyond that, overtime is paid for cops and unpaid for teachers.
It's true that they don't do much work over the summer, though they have to come in 2-3 weeks in the summer more than the students.
If you feel teachers are undervalued, fine but teachers being underpaid and cops overpaid simply isn't logically consistent.
I'm not making this claim. But this statement has no logical problems, at least not as stated. Just because they might be paid a similar amount (or even if teachers are paid more) doesn't mean that the statement isn't logically consistent.
For example, Lebron James gets X and Nico Mannion gets paid Y (which is much less than X). Many still argue that Lebron is underpaid and Nico maybe overpaid. They deliver different value, and there's the notion of scarcity to provide the level service they provide.
If you think the average teacher (or some percentage of teachers) provides more value then the average cop, then you could make that statement and it not be logically inconsistent.
Unfortunately both have civil servant types of roles, which are hard to valuate in terms of financial impact.
I also think teacher's need to be held to a higher bar. Not that they do a bad job on average, but when they do there appears to be little accountability. But that's completely irrelevant to the article.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/374-seatt...
I know a cop outside of Redding, CA (not near any major cities), and he has more money than he knows what to do with.
That's a feature not a bug.
When you have a lot of unfair and unjust laws you need jackboots with no stake in the community in order to enforce them.
My state has some fancy words for justifying and obfuscating it but this is how they justify their policy of assigning state cops far away from their hometowns and residences for the first decade of their career. They want the cops to police the way the state wants them to police. They don't want them to think about what's best for the people being policed.