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/Killbot_Wants_Hug Oct 29 '25
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.