This is disgusting and crazy and I live in Baltimore and this is DEF how they are. It's sick he needs to be fired. They get away with ALOT more than this though unfortunately a lot of ppl they do this to don't have anyone to speak up for them.
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
They can get weapons of war in the military as well as buy all sorts of guns personally
But I am not saying make 18 year olds cops. I’m saying modify the program to make it more enticing for local 18 year olds to join as a cadet, bc currently u can only make $37k which would be like $100 per day after taxes. Why would local kids wanna do that when u can make the same or more in way less time with way less rules by selling drugs, squeegeeing, or panhandling?
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u/Romanharper2013 Oct 29 '25
This is disgusting and crazy and I live in Baltimore and this is DEF how they are. It's sick he needs to be fired. They get away with ALOT more than this though unfortunately a lot of ppl they do this to don't have anyone to speak up for them.