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Which? Where?
by errcorrectcode 5y ago
Which? Where?
- filoleg 5y agoI can only speak for the city I live in, but Seattle fits the bill perfectly right now.
- ornornor 5y agoToronto ON
- radicaldreamer 5y agoSan Francisco, for one.
- mushbino 5y agoThey've never responded for things like this, be it now, pre-pandemic, or 20 years ago. It's never been an understaffing issue.
- flounder3 5y agoSan Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. San Jose (albeit theft has never received attention in San Jose)
- rootusrootus 5y agoPortland, of course, definitely belongs on the list. I live in a small town outside of Portland and it's not bad, we haven't cut the funding for our police.
- jjeaff 5y agoWell, San Francisco cut their police budget by $6m... From $668 million. And they increased funding to other parts of the justice apparatus. Like and increase to juvenile programs and the district attorney's office. You'll be hard pressed to find even the most liberal cities in America have actually cut police funding in any significant way.
- panzagl 5y agoEvery city in the US. Between 'are we the baddies' and relatively meh pay most municipalities are short of officers. I'd link an article, but googling 'police shortage' would seem to do the trick.
- jjeaff 5y agoIs "are we the baddies" really a reason? Because many other industries are having a shortage of workers right now.
- r00fus 5y agoLaw Enforcement definitely do not have "meh" pay in "most municipalities".
- panzagl 5y agoAnd let me guess, all teachers do is hand out worksheets for 6 hours a day and why do you always see 3 constructions workers standing around a hole? But you- you cleared 1.5 story points today tying two Javascript libraries together, that's where the real value is.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoIn New Jersey most of the town cops make 6 figures and are in less danger than a bicyclist on public roads.
- panzagl 5y agoI think that speaks more about being a bicyclist on the roads of New Jersey than the dangers a cop faces. It's funny when people complain about HN being too US-centric, when in reality it's CA,NY/NJ, and MA centric. NJ is awash in money flowing from Wall St, so I don't feel bad that their cops make a decent wage.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
- pantalaimon 5y agoBerlin certainly too