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Louisiana sheriff retires after pleading guilty to beating podcaster who often criticized him
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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Oh nice. He gets to retire with no real consequences.
Probably even still gets to keep his pension.
Probably sue the guy for damaging his hands.
( Im not kidding this has actually happened before)
And get a new job in the neighboring county.
A pension is something you pay into it through your career with deductions from your paycheck. Idk why people treat it like free money or something that is earned through merit. It's the money of the employee taken and invested
Then they should give his pension to the victim
Not all pensions work like that. Government pensions especially. Some work like you accumulate time in service and once you hit the threshold (typically 20-30 years) then they'll pay you for the rest of your life. Often comes with healthcare too. Not sure how it works for NOLA police though.
What you're describing sounds more like a retirement account.
I worked in the park service for a bit. Money was drawn from my paycheck automatically to fund the pension. You got the rest right though.
As for Healthcare, you do get to keep that, but we still had to pay for it. Pretty good price though.
The 401k was entirely separate
Yeah it's his pension. But we, the tax payer should take it away from him as punishment/compensation for his victims. I don't know what we're missing here.
For police, a pension should just be a security deposit that you get back at retirement/career change if you've been good and not behaved like an animal.
Nah fuck that, put his ass in prison sure, but until we fix our broken ass country I'm not sentencing anyone to poverty in their old age. There are some people I really do hate, but I hate the existence of poverty more
Now I'm down for making them carry insurance that pays their wrong doing. That in turn will eventually push them out of policing
As long as we allow it.