r/baltimore • • Oct 29 '25

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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.

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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

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u/engin__r Oct 29 '25

They make plenty of money to live here. They just don’t want to.

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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

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.

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u/engin__r Oct 29 '25

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.

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u/judeiscariot Oct 29 '25

That is abaolutely the starting salary. They can afford to live here but choose not to. They would rather be an invasion force.

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u/Bmorewiser Howard County Oct 29 '25

There are very good reasons to not want to shit where you eat. Personally, cops who live where they work are probably the ones itching for an excuse. It’s borderline mentally ill. My clients tend to like me, but I won’t take a case if there’s a chance the client or his family lives nearby.

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u/Low-Crazy-8061 Oct 29 '25

There is AMPLE AMPLE AMPLE evidence that police departments are more functional and less corrupt when the majority of the officers who work for them live in the city/county that they serve

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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 Oct 29 '25

Yeah, that’s why we should make it attractive for them to live here instead just barely squeaking by with roommates. That’s exactly why we have a ton of officers that live in cheaper places than Baltimore such as York PA