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Old 06-20-2014, 11:06 AM
 
Location: South Hills
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Do the stats for this area as far as problems bear out you theory about the danger of "dumpster diving" for police recruits.
I was thinking of cities like New Orleans and Houston, which regularly run national recruitment ads seeking police officers for starting pay under $30,000.
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Old 06-20-2014, 06:24 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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I was thinking of cities like New Orleans and Houston, which regularly run national recruitment ads seeking police officers for starting pay under $30,000.


I don't know about that, Houston says their starting police salary is 44k, New Orleans is 34k.

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Old 06-23-2014, 11:56 AM
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I don't know about that, Houston says their starting police salary is 44k, New Orleans is 34k.

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Some towns around here hire super cheap. I think Verona has some officers at a very low hourly, maybe even less than $10 an hour.
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Old 06-24-2014, 06:33 AM
 
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Even if the numbers are now above $30K, I'd be afraid to invest the considerable powers of a
police officer in somebody who would take the job for that.
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Old 06-30-2014, 11:44 PM
 
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Justify this. Superintendent of PPS makes 230k per year for a 26k school district that has done nothing but decline for the past 10 years.

Pittsburgh schools board approves $10,000 raise for Superintendent Linda Lane - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Old 07-01-2014, 07:36 AM
 
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How does that even qualify as an article? It's literally three sentences. Spacing them out so they look like three paragraphs doesn't make it any better. What lousy reporting.
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Old 07-01-2014, 07:49 AM
 
Location: South Hills
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How does that even qualify as an article? It's literally three sentences. Spacing them out so they look like three paragraphs doesn't make it any better. What lousy reporting.
The newspaper biz has shed nearly 55,000 jobs in the past ten years. They barely have the resources to recut-and-paste a PR handout. The days of sending an actual reporter out to the Board of Education to investigate and compose an actual story are over. Get used to it.
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Old 07-01-2014, 08:11 AM
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Justify this. Superintendent of PPS makes 230k per year for a 26k school district that has done nothing but decline for the past 10 years.
Wow, her salary is higher than Warren Buffets. People wonder why our schools around here are always broke.
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