Police Warning for Ice on the Sidewalk?!? (Seaford: college, military)

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by mikeyc4582

LongIslandMike,

I have a very hard time reading your posts with all of the quotes, commas, caps, etc. My basic premise is, by cutting police compensation you aren't cutting services - just the amount of money these same cops are getting for their service.

Maybe you haven't seen their compensation package, but here's a few bullet points in case you missed it:

NCPD top pay after 7 years - 117,000
SCPD top pay after 5 years - 98,000

The SCPD gets 6 weeks of vacation.
The SCPD gets an extra weekend day off every other week, leading to an extra 16 days off.

The SCPD gets 12 (I think) paid holidays. If they don't work, they still get paid. If they do work, they get time and a half for working, in addition to the pay they get for it being a holiday. In essence, they get paid double time and a half.

The SCPD gets 20ish (don't remember the exact number) sick days. Most of these cops don't take more than a few days off. When the cop retires, he gets half of his sick bank paid out at his current hourly rate. He also gets all of his vacation bank paid out at his current hourly rate.

The cops get free healthcare insurance. They do not have to contribute 1 penny.

The cops get a free pension. They are guaranteed a certain amount of money each month for the rest of their life. If the stock market totally tanks, it doesn't matter. We Suffolk County residents must fund the difference.

Believe me, cops should be paid well. They have a tough job and should be compensated appropriately. However, they are getting a 2009 salary and 1950 benefits - something has got to give!

Gotcha!

[azzurrony]

100% agreed that we are paying cops more than we have to. Trim the salaries to $80,000, and you'd still have floods of qualified candidates.

[dman72]

Originally Posted by longislandmike

Tell me, when a Police Officer responds to a call from you, are you going to carp, to his face, about how he is paid too much, to be there, to save your ingrateful butt ?

..says your friendly neighborhood cop.

Lovely guy we have here.

"If you don't pay me like a CPA, I will let something bad happen to you and your family ...out of spite!!!"


You can't make this stuff up.

[longislandmike]

Originally Posted by mikeyc4582

I totally agree with you. Keep in mind these aren't attacks on the police. These are attacks on their compensation, which is excessive. We on LI are among the highest taxed citizens in America. It's time to find these excesses, expose them, and get these wrongs righted.

They aren't huh ?

What are they, grateful words to a person, that they are doing a good job ?

If you want to trim excessive costs, start on the mealy mouthed, Politicians ?

[longislandmike]

Originally Posted by azzurrony

100% agreed that we are paying cops more than we have to. Trim the salaries to $80,000, and you'd still have floods of qualified candidates.

After the trimming and the dumbing down of qualifications, let's hope the new employee will be able to read the correct address to respond to.

If it's your's, you may have spent your chance to get a car there !

[dman72]

Originally Posted by longislandmike

After the trimming and the dumbing down of qualifications, let's hope the new employee will be able to read the correct address to respond to.

If it's your's, you may have spent your chance to get a car there !

LOL


Are you done making threats?

[azzurrony]

I have a friend at work here who is pulling down about $42,000 in an HR job. He's 25....graduate of Chaminade and NYU. Very bright.

He told me today he's taking the exams for SCPD and NCPD. He said he'd die to get that $57,000 starting salary and benefits.

---I HAVE ZERO FEAR that we would get unqualified candidates by cutting compensation. The meal ticket is so huge, we'd still be turning candidates away.

[azzurrony]

Warning warning!! If our cops don't make at least $98,000 a year, those rapists will come through your window and attack your wife!! Open your wallets now!!

[dman72]

Originally Posted by azzurrony

I have a friend at work here who is pulling down about $42,000 in an HR job. He's 25....graduate of Chaminade and NYU. Very bright.

He told me today he's taking the exams for SCPD and NCPD. He said he'd die to get that $57,000 starting salary and benefits.

---I HAVE ZERO FEAR that we would get unqualified candidates by cutting compensation. The meal ticket is so huge, we'd still be turning candidates away.

Obviously. Only a current SCPD or NCPD cop or someone hitched to their gravy train could possibly think otherwise.

Your friend may well join the growing masses of people leaving LI who will never be able to afford a home here if he doesn't get through the process.

[azzurrony]

Originally Posted by dman72

Obviously. Only a current SCPD or NCPD cop or someone hitched to their gravy train could possibly think otherwise.

Your friend may well join the growing masses of people leaving LI who will never be able to afford a home here if he doesn't get through the process.

Yeah, he still lives at home in Seaford with mom and dad after graduating NYU. Can't afford his own place. So, he hopes to join the police gravy train soon. I can't blame him. The thing about him though is he's honest. He freely admits the cops around here are fleecing the citizens, but his motto is..."if you can't beat them, join them."