Been conducting an informal poll where I ask people how much they think the average LAPD makes. Going to get a sample of 100 people, and come up w/ an average.
So far, most think LAPD cops average $45,000-$65,000 annually. When I tell the average is $129,000, they’re stunned.
From what I’m reading, this year there will be $1.75B spent on LAPD pay. With 12,000 total employees (10,000 sworn officers) that works out to an average of $145,000 per LAPD employee.
And they want MORE money?
In past week, I’ve looked up pay for 20+ cops. Only *three* were paid less than $100,000 in 2019 (one was the cop who pointed gun at @ShotOn35mm).
The “kid” cop I confront in this video was paid either $113,000 or $123,000 in 2019 (two cops w/his name).
It’s seems FBI agents average about $85,000 annually after 5 years on the job. Don’t know if that includes overtime or not. If it does include overtime, it’s means LAPD are being paid substantially more than FBI. And the LAPD only requires a GED. FBI requires a Bachelors.
Studies show cops w/college degrees:
▪️Less likely to use force
▪️Less likely to have complaints
▪️Behave like 10 yr vets
When I say the LAPD should require college degrees, the cops say, “people will just join FBI instead of LAPD”.
But that’s BS because the LAPD pays more.
We all know the cops get 54% of our discretionary budget. But if they hire another 3,000 LAPD for the Olympics, they’ll account for up to 63% of our discretionary budget. Thats primarily cop pay. That doesn’t include the other $1.25B non-discretionary they get.
This is absurd.
*Eighty percent* of LAPD don’t live in LA.
Join at 21. Buy a house a 23. When they retire at 50, their house, cars and boats are paid-off. They use the equity from their homes to buy their sports bars. Creating all this generational wealth outside LA. Sucking the money from LA.
Are the cops thankful?
What is the product the LAPD is putting on the street? Here a community member asks sergeants to show basic respect by following LAPD mask rules.
For this disrespect, in 2019 we paid:
Cop 1: $166,520
Cop 2: $154,560
We also paid another $160,000 in benefits for both, combined, in 2019. Adding insult to injury, the LAPD just had another 3.25% raise go into effect in January.
Did any of you get a 3.25% raise in January?
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Looked up the cop from this picture. His pay is indicative finishing the academy in late 2019. That means he just finished up his field probationary training 3-5 month ago. This was probably his first protest action.
He looks scared. Nothing more dangerous than a *scared* cop.
Cops don’t generally scare me, but that’s some scary shit. I don’t know how he was able to keep getting pictures with a shotgun pointed at his mouth.
Thousands of complaints for *biased policing* have been filed against the LAPD. NONE have been sustained. Zero. No bias, huh? Let’s look at the OIG data:
Percent of people who searched for *traffic violations*:
It’s been nine months since I filed my first mask complaint against the LAPD. The complaint was sent with video of the cops maskless.
What, exactly, is taking so long?
I’m in the process of filing a complaint against the cop below. Should it really take a 12-18 month investigation to determine if he failed to wear a mask? But that’s what the LAPD is going to do.
Ridiculous.
Let’s say your job required you to wear a mask. And let’s say a customer filmed you without a mask, and filed a complaint with corporate. Would it take corporate 18 months to complete the investigation? Fuck no.
But the LAPD does whatever the LAPD wants to do. And we let them.
How it started: saw Sgt Willers (chronically doing out-of-policy stuff) and Shapiro, and asked them to put on masks.
They refused, then started with the flashlights and floodlights.
(2/...)
Shapiro is constitutionally illiterate. I informed him it’s a 1st amendment violation to use flashlights to interfere with filming. He said it’s not true. 🥴
The LAPD admits it’s a constitutional violation. Unsurprisingly, an LAPD *supervisor* doesn’t know the basics. (3/...)
Eventually Cali will have an online database of police officer complaint history. Cop unions will try to limit info provided (total number of sustained complaints — not details).
Thats why I write them up for the smallest stuff: may hold the same weight as serious infractions.
If they try to only release “total number of sustained complaints” then a sustained mask complaint will look as bad as “out-of-policy use-of-force” complaint. So I focus on documenting clear violations LAPD policy.
Use their attempt to hide info against them.
“Whoa, I just looked that cop up. Officer Johnson has *12 sustained complaints* against him. What a fucking monster!”
Little will the know those 12 complaints were for being filmed without masks. I don’t give a fuck, either.