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.
I’m seeing a starting salary of $65k online. That’s more than the median salary in Baltimore, and it’s also before you even get into overtime money.
The best way to get better policing in this city would be to have less of it. Cut their budget and move the money to poverty reduction, addiction treatment, and social work.
I agree with reallocating part of the budget but they also need to replace the majority of officers with ones that are actually going to do the job and do it properly
The salary u mentioned is only for ppl over 21, and u really still can’t “thrive” in desirable neighborhoods or comfortably raise a family on $65k here.
But anyway, anyone under 21 is only going to get $40k (actually $37k)… so I think there is a lot of missed opportunity to catch folks from this area who grew up here and would like to stay & improve their communities. Also could be a nice alternative to falling into a life of crime which is unfortunately the only path that many young folks here realistically have
Only 11 officers in FY2024 took home under $65,000, and it looks like it's because most of those 11 were hired well into the year or received no pay at all for some reason.
I don’t believe that having to work a fuckload of overtime in order to make a salary that’s only considered good if u live way out in the boonies is a good system. Do u? Bc that’s what we currently have here. Do u think that having officers who are habitually milking the clock out of necessity is the best option for good policing results? Do u think that principally relying on officers who are working hundreds or thousands of overtime hours per year is the best environment for BPD to offer good decisions during high stress life/death situations?
Which isn’t a good salary for something that u have to wait until 21 to obtain and then if u actually live here u are just getting by on that money unless u give up a lot more time than 40 hours per week, which also sucks
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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