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m_d_hThe national average annual wage of a police officer is $67,600, according to the BLS, a little over $15,000 more than average annual salary for all occupations, $51,960.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/police-officer-salary-state
It's only a bit more than the average high school teacher salary of $61,660, although most teachers get summers off.
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/high-school-teachers.htm
These are public service jobs that place you in the middle class in the US, you won't get rich doing them. Teachers don't decide what is taught in school, police don't decide what the laws are. They have some discretion in how they do their jobs, but they have supervisors and rules to follow. They are often represented by labor unions, which I think is a good thing, even though there's some criticism of police labor unions on the Left these days. Lots of criticism of police in general on the Left these days, some even say they want to Abolish the Police -- which would throw about a million middle-class men and women out of their jobs, through no fault of their own.
Although I also work for the government, I'm a supervising attorney, so I'm paid significantly more than these other public servants. So are many of my friends, I tend to have friends who make more than the average wage in the US; most of the people who I'm keeping track of during quarantine make more than police officers or teachers, although many of my friends and family are teachers.
Strange that I have several friends and family who are teachers, but none who are police officers. It's as though police officers come from a different world. I simply don't know any of them. I did have a friend who was studying criminal justice and interned with a police force, I remember helping him with some of his assignments, because I'm a lawyer, stuff like preparing affidavits in support of search warrants. But he ended up finding much more lucrative employment in private sector security operations.
Something to consider -- a lot of your public servants could make a lot more money working in the private sector. Ideally, the Left would make common cause with public servants, such as police officers and soldiers. At least these public servants aren't working directly for the capitalists, they aren't motivated by profit, and many of them are willing to lay down their lives in sacrifice for what they believe is the common good.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/police-officer-salary-state
It's only a bit more than the average high school teacher salary of $61,660, although most teachers get summers off.
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/high-school-teachers.htm
These are public service jobs that place you in the middle class in the US, you won't get rich doing them. Teachers don't decide what is taught in school, police don't decide what the laws are. They have some discretion in how they do their jobs, but they have supervisors and rules to follow. They are often represented by labor unions, which I think is a good thing, even though there's some criticism of police labor unions on the Left these days. Lots of criticism of police in general on the Left these days, some even say they want to Abolish the Police -- which would throw about a million middle-class men and women out of their jobs, through no fault of their own.
Although I also work for the government, I'm a supervising attorney, so I'm paid significantly more than these other public servants. So are many of my friends, I tend to have friends who make more than the average wage in the US; most of the people who I'm keeping track of during quarantine make more than police officers or teachers, although many of my friends and family are teachers.
Strange that I have several friends and family who are teachers, but none who are police officers. It's as though police officers come from a different world. I simply don't know any of them. I did have a friend who was studying criminal justice and interned with a police force, I remember helping him with some of his assignments, because I'm a lawyer, stuff like preparing affidavits in support of search warrants. But he ended up finding much more lucrative employment in private sector security operations.
Something to consider -- a lot of your public servants could make a lot more money working in the private sector. Ideally, the Left would make common cause with public servants, such as police officers and soldiers. At least these public servants aren't working directly for the capitalists, they aren't motivated by profit, and many of them are willing to lay down their lives in sacrifice for what they believe is the common good.
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Date: 19 Aug 2020 09:27 (UTC)Didn't that happen before already? Yes, correct - just throw in the term "Blackwater" and then you know everything which there is to know.
Isn't that option even worse than what there already is going on?
You see, and that's why Western, and espcially American left, mostly is not left, but just a bunch of rather corporate-manipulated kids dressed in the costume of adults.
"Luftmensch" - or, as in nowadays' German: Traumtänzer.
They're just stuck in their dream clouds and don't think farther than from lunch to 12 o'clock what their dream clouds would mean if you turned them into reality.