The city cops here start at about 50k a year, and they get their own car. Champlin has the ticket squad out in force constantly. Wonder how they pay for every officer to have his own car that he takes home at night, and a very good starting wage? LOL. Wait, no I don't (see ticket squad).
It's been a while since I've been pulled over in Champlin, course I do the speed limit too, and I keep my eyes peeled, big time. All in all, don't do anything wrong, and you'll probably make it a while before ticketing.
Police officers aren't necessarily bad when they are writing tickets. They get told what to do by their superiors, but I think they could probably write tickets for the real jerks (IE no turn signals) and the rest, not for 5mph over.
This cop dies, that cop dies. I have never been really affected by death. Everybody dies, and it's something people have to learn to deal with. How many bankers died last week? I bet you a couple kicked the bucket. There are highway workers that have more dangerous jobs, yet they don't get respect. I think the majority of bad cops out there have given a poor reputation to them all, and maybe it's a little self fufilling prophecy. I think if you hear you are an jerk enough, maybe you become one. Regardless, I think on average a lot more jerks become cops than other occupations for the lure of power.
That being said, I don't really like hearing about people dying.
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