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anton zuykov said:

StrangeDays said:

anton zuykov said:

StrangeDays said:

anton zuykov said:

Goldfinger10 said:

How much is a police officer's salary? Surely enough that $200 isn't significant. Definitely not worth risking your career over. Why do people do these things?

Becasue they are stupid. The question is - why did the selection process not pick up on that?

We have a severely undermanned police force in New Orleans, at least 500 below what is needed. The applicant pool is not great due to poor education system in a poverty stricken city with almost no middle class. 

There is a reason for that. And knowing the issues that cops face in the US today, it is probably this: normal educated-with-high-moral-standards people do not want to go to the police, since today's view of the profession is mostly negative, thanks to the left-leaning MSM touting that. That means, that instead of that kind of candidates, you will be hiring from people with MUCH lower standards and with other motivations in joining the force. And the thing is - if that is the case, even increasing salaries 40-60% will not help to turn the situation around.
Berkeley police (California) is going through this same situation of severe understaffing right now (a lot of cops left for other cities departments that are less fond of antifa)

Actually it’s because our mayor instituted a hiring freeze several years ago when he should not have. But nice try pushing your agenda onto a place you literally know nothing about. 

I wrote software for the NOPD for several years. 

"Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, now faces the prospect of more staff departures, with a reported 80 percent of current officers considering leaving the department, according to a survey conducted by the Berkeley Police Association, or BPA."
http://www.dailycal.org/2018/02/07/80-percent-of-berkeley-police-officers-considering-leaving-survey-says/

So, why does "hiring freeze" that the mayor supposedly instituted, affect those officers already serving in the force? Why are they thinking about leaving? What happened?

I call BS on what you offered as a dismissal.. Here is why:
1) Berkeley is known as one of the most socialist places in the US. It is a fact.
2) The mayor is a well known supporter of antifa and was in friends on their facebook page for quite some time. It is a fact.
3) he is supporter of a group of "By Any Means Necessary". It is a fact.
4) Police did not respond to the riots in the way it should have (supposedly due to the mayor ordering that).

Now, (according to you) all those facts (1-3) are completely coincidental to the fact that police officer numbers are dwindling in that city.
But, of course, you are correct, since you wrote software for NOPD. (which is still irrelevant to the facts and the problem at hand) /s
SMH