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It's kinda fucked up, but Sanders i think explained it well. We need increased funding so there's higher salaries to attract better people.
I bet we could claw back a lot of money for that without increasing funding though if we stopped buying military surplus.
They have excellent salaries. It's a culture change they need.
Which again though, needs new people
Sure, but thee culture has to change first, the recruitment ads are so tone deaf, they really don't realize it's because decent people want nothing to do with these organizations anymore. I'd suggest no longer allowing high level management to have ever been cops, but maybe defense attorneys or any sort of lawyer who has never been a prosecutor. It's been done before, PM Stephen Harper got so mad at the RCMP Superintendent he put a lawyer in charge, first time a non cop had been put in. They lost their minds over it.
It's pretty much like what happened with the military. People are no longer enlisting because the benefits aren't there and people who enlisted and were screwed over are telling family and friends not to enlist.
Oh for sure, it needs to be a twofold effort. We need good, decent people to become cops, and we need leadership that is committed to changed policies.
I think it makes a lot of sense actually to remove all current police from leadership. We can follow the military model and have a civil police chief, like a mayor or city planner.
Nah, police commonly earn in the $150,000 to $200,000 range because of overtime and powerful unions.
Can you provide sources from this? I'm genuinely curious, the highest I've heard was $80,000 and it was a campus department with endowment funding.
Also, I wouldn't count overtime as part of the salary. Having to work that much is going to put extra stress on you, make you irritable, wear you down, etc. and result in turnover.