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The Policeman
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SPECTACUALR SPIDERMAN
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i have only 1 problem i have with that is the end when it says they have to do all that on a policeman's salary.
well in nassua/suffolk ny that means they have to do that job for a lousy $100k not including o/t or $60k+ pension
or full medical that my tax dollars pay for that i am not entitled to.
I am not knocking them at all & i support my police but it is a job like any other, do it right, do it well.
well in nassua/suffolk ny that means they have to do that job for a lousy $100k not including o/t or $60k+ pension
or full medical that my tax dollars pay for that i am not entitled to.
I am not knocking them at all & i support my police but it is a job like any other, do it right, do it well.
napper39
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just a word to the pay here in ottawa kansas and kansas city kansas ,and also bonner springs kansas ,ive worked all thes city police dept.and they start out at 10.75 an hour so thats what he was talking about very poor pay.but you do it because you like the job,not the pay.:chat:
finless
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+100
My Dad was a Highway Patrolman in Minn. before I was born. Later he left Minn and started his own Helicopter flight training school in Long Island, NY. Then moved out to So Cal and opened.... Get this... An ice cream parlor in San Clemente Ca.
After that he joined the Orange County Sherriff's Dept from which he retired from. He passed away last year.
I almost became a Sherriff myself. Even passed the test! But my calling was of a technical nature so I went into Xerox corp. Sometimes I think back and wonder had I been a cop, what things would be like now.
Anyway just to share. Here is a picture of my Dad (left) after a bust of a bank robber. This was in 1958 a year before I was born.
Also see the gun in his holster? It's a .38 special. I now have this exact gun.
My Dad was a Highway Patrolman in Minn. before I was born. Later he left Minn and started his own Helicopter flight training school in Long Island, NY. Then moved out to So Cal and opened.... Get this... An ice cream parlor in San Clemente Ca.
After that he joined the Orange County Sherriff's Dept from which he retired from. He passed away last year.
I almost became a Sherriff myself. Even passed the test! But my calling was of a technical nature so I went into Xerox corp. Sometimes I think back and wonder had I been a cop, what things would be like now.
Anyway just to share. Here is a picture of my Dad (left) after a bust of a bank robber. This was in 1958 a year before I was born.
Also see the gun in his holster? It's a .38 special. I now have this exact gun.
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R.I.P. Dwayne
Paul Harvey did have a way with words.
A great piece that will give us something to think about.
Yes, the salaries are much better today than they were way back when.
Thank you for posting this one Bob. :yes:
A great piece that will give us something to think about.
Yes, the salaries are much better today than they were way back when.
Thank you for posting this one Bob. :yes:
I agree that it should be done right and done well, but it is nota job like any other. How many times a year is an accountant or a grocery clerk or a salesman exposed to the death and pain that a police officer routinely sees? You may be an exception, but how many people have you watched die? I held the hand and consoled a beautiful 16 year old girl as the paramedics tried (unsuccessfully) to get her to the hospital alive after her 18 year old husband blew out her knee then gut-shot her with a 30.06. This was right after he fatally shot the girl's mother in the back. I've delivered babies in taxis and in the middle of king-sized waterbeds. I've had knives and guns pulled on me. I've been called a pig while attending a play with my wife. I've seen too many suicides laying on the floor in a pool of blood and brain matter. I have dived into an oil and gas covered pond to attempt to rescue anyone still in the vehicle that had plunged into the cold water while hoping the oil and gas would not be ignited. My family has received death threats. I had a man swing an ax at my head with full intent to kill me during a I responded to a domestic dispute. I crawled inside a pickup that had been hit be a train to check for any signs of life of the man and woman trapped inside with their bodies crumpled like empty cigarette packs. There is nothing exceptional about my experience. One of my fellow detectives had his thumb blown off by a bad guy with a .44 magnum. Another officer I worked with had his jaw broken as he successfully subdued a man that was threatening bar patrons with a gun. Another couldn't talk and had lots of pain for several days after being hit in the throat while preventing a man from beating a witness to a motor vehicle accident. And I could go on and on. A job like any other? I don't think so.
And as for them getting your tax dollars and making more money than you do - I'm sorry you are bitter. If I had a dollar for every person that told me that they paid my salary or that they would have my badge because they knew the police chief, I wouldn't have to worry about a pension. I never made that much money as a cop. I am now a university professor and I still don't make that much - but I don't begrudge them a single penny.
SPECTACUALR SPIDERMAN
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Those are the ones i respect the most
