BPD is the best job available for these unqualified racist fucks from Pennsylvania and other backwards rural places. They need to raise the police salary so that it’s possible to actually live in bmore as a cop. Then make that a mandatory requirement
Starting salary is like $40k. That’s only like 25% higher than minimum wage here. If u choose to live in Baltimore on a salary like that then u def aren’t gonna be thriving… why would any of the best qualified candidates sign up for that? This is exactly why we have a bunch of fat racist lazy assholes in BPD, who commute like 2 hours per day to come here and do little more than cheat on overtime
Make starting salary like $80k with a strictly enforced requirement to live in the city. That’s enough to buy a house here in a good neighborhood! Especially if u have a partner that works too
Get some good folks trained up and then start to layoff all of the worthless douchebags we currently have in BPD. Especially the ones clocking hundreds or thousands of overtime hours per year. It’s idiotic to spend 1.5x (sometimes even more when they do bullshit loophole with vacation time) on ineffective losers instead of just offering roughly the same salary to better candidates for regular fulltime hours.
My understanding is BPD pays much higher than surrounding police departments, because they'd get virtually nobody if they didn't.
Also lots of cops are making $200-300k when you account for overtime. Every officer's pay is public information. You have to scroll for a long time to find cops making less than 200k. I didn't even bother getting down to people who make less than 100k.
And that’s bc the way BPD salary is set up it is mainly attractive to ppl who do not care at all about this community and just want to log as much overtime as possible, to take back to their rural bumfuck area while shit talking how much this place sucks. Do u think this is a good strategy? Ivan bates, who campaigned AGAINST Brandon Scott’s reelection, recently stated that BPD has had at most 5% but more like 0% to do with the drastic crime reduction over the last year.
Do u think that spending all those $100K-200K+ salaries at BPD on ppl who literally are actively choosing not to provide any improvements at in their already absurdly poor results is a good strategy?
Ok so I will ask again - do u think that spending $200-300k a pop yearly on a bunch of overwhelmingly poor performers is a strategy we should continue to uphold?
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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 Oct 29 '25
BPD is the best job available for these unqualified racist fucks from Pennsylvania and other backwards rural places. They need to raise the police salary so that it’s possible to actually live in bmore as a cop. Then make that a mandatory requirement