Newsday: Most County Pay Goes to Law Enforcement (Nassau: how much, homes)
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The total compensation of police and sheriff's department employees in Nassau and Suffolk last year reached almost two-thirds of each county's payroll, propelled by generous raises, overtime and retirement packages.
A Newsday analysis of county records shows years of raises above the inflation rate pushed base salaries to as much as $219,000 for a Nassau police captain. A Suffolk sheriff's officer earned overtime of $120,166, while a retirement package boosted another Nassau captain's total pay to $876,078.
I love that OT package. What does everyone think of this article? No surprise I guess.
I love that OT package. What does everyone think of this article? No surprise I guess.
Now Suffolk PBA should take the lead from Nassau PBA and run an ad campaign trying to deflect blame for high taxes away from themeslves towards teachers.
This part is the funniest of all of it
"James Carver, president of the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association, justified his members' salaries, noting that law enforcement composes just 10 percent of the average homeowner's property tax bill.
"The public is getting a good bang for their buck," he said."
He's still going with the property tax BS when he knows that cops are paid through more taxes than just the ones on peoples homes. If Newsday was so tough on police they should have called him on that immediately. He just went to his stock phrase despite the fact that he doesn't address the article in any way.
I guess you can't blame the cops, if you were making 200K a year with a High School education I guess I wouldn't be so quick to give it up, but the government should be doing everything in it's power to cut these compensation levels. They are absurd.
I am sure a certain poster will be by shortly to tell us how we know nothing about it and that they aren't overpaid at all. "move along folks, nothing to see here..."
I am sure a certain poster will be by shortly to tell us how we know nothing about it and that they aren't overpaid at all. "move along folks, nothing to see here..."
If I was pulling the kind of coin he and his buddies are, I'd be keeping as low a profile as possible instead of drawing attention to myself, but with absurd compensation rates often comes inflated egos.
Yeah and I will be told to go to the Scwartz Report! Predictable, predictable! I didn't have any problem with real posters on Schwartz report, just with the buffoons who followed me there! LOL!
If I was pulling the kind of coin he and his buddies are, I'd be keeping as low a profile as possible instead of drawing attention to myself, but with absurd compensation rates often comes inflated egos.
True, though it doesn't seem to matter how much attention is brought to it, nothing seems to change.
^^^ Sorry about the big picture. The PBA better stop using taxpayer money to advertise this BULLSH*T malarkey disinformation. I actually saw one of their commercials on a pretty big network last night (Spike I think).
66 percent of the $928 million payroll last year went for police and sheriffs pay.
10 percent of the $800 million in property taxes the county collects is only $80M.
Let's see what the math says:
ACTUAL COST....... .66*$928M= $612.5M
PBA says.............. .10*$800M= $ 80.0M
Apparently, over 75% of collected property taxes on behalf of the county go towards Police pay ($612.5M/$800M). Stop with the nonsense.
Pensions should not exist anymore. They suck the money out of those who do the heavy lifting in the private sector, most of whom dont receive pensions anymore. A generous 401k match is what public unions should be getting. I say give em an overly generous 100% match on their 401k contributions up to 16,500 per year(The max allowable contribution under 50). By living responsibly and within their means they can save 33,000 a year towards retirement this way, all the while having it be their money and let it compound all those years. The private sector taxpayer isnt held hostage, while at the same time fiscally sanity can be brought back to LI!
^^^ Sorry about the big picture. The PBA better stop using taxpayer money to advertise this BULLSH*T malarkey disinformation. I actually saw one of their commercials on a pretty big network last night (Spike I think).
66 percent of the $928 million payroll last year went for police and sheriffs pay.
10 percent of the $800 million in property taxes the county collects is only $80M.
Let's see what the math says:
ACTUAL COST....... .66*$928M= $612.5M
PBA says.............. .10*$800M= $ 80.0M
Apparently, over 75% of collected property taxes on behalf of the county go towards Police pay ($612.5M/$800M). Stop with the nonsense.
Yes, you're worth it!
No, we can't afford it!
What does it say about the PBA that they would basically use a complete distortion of reality to try to further their agenda? Did they think they wouldn't get caught in this lie? "Hey guys, let's just keep saying property taxes as if that's the only cost we lay on the taxpayer. Har har, it'll be great!!"
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