Comments on The Police Contract Clusterfuck

"i'm going to work for a racist chief in bellevue so i can whack me some innocent non-white peoples and not have to get censured for it."

Hey officers, on your way out of Seattle, please don't forget to take the SPOG with you.

Thanks.

Seriously though... These police officers moan about how they aren't paid enough, but then when the city goes and offers to pay them a PROFESSIONAL'S salary ($90,000 a YEAR!) on the condition that they'll be expected to BEHAVE like PROFESSIONALS... THEY REFUSE?!?

Sorry, no pity here, if you want to go work for an employer that doesn't care about how you act or perform your job, then go... because we don't want you here.

If I told my boss I wanted a 33.9% raise on the condition that I wouldn't be held accountable if I did something wrong, I'd be laughed out of my job.

Common sense seems to have eluded some people.

33.9% ??

Which body orifice did you pull that figure out from PackedRatt?

Take a look at the numbers and you'll see that the magic ** 90 THOUSAND DOLLAR ** number just doesn't show up.

I've worked here for twenty years, and even with several HUNDRED hours of overtime in a year don't make 90 grand.

12 year veteran officer salary under proposed contract:
Current Salary $72,072
2008 Salary $80,072
2010 Salary $89,250

Are you saying the city's offer doesn't say that?(and think, that doesn't include overtime, I'm a network engineer and I don't make that much and I don't get overtime, just to give you some perspective).

Let me ask, though, if that's not enough to convince you and you fellow officers to accept the 29 accountability recommendations, is there anything that would?

The City will prevail in this labor dispute through attrition. Employers often break the law to achieve larger strategic goals during union negotiations, and the SPOG leadership is freaking out because they know it. Funny to hear complaints of "ULP" from an organization that had no problem kicking the crap out of unionists in our streets nearly ten years ago.

I'd love to see the money grubbing, no accountability accepting officers leave town. We don't need thugs like that roaming the street arresting blacks for 'contempt of cop', etc. I won't cry about less bored, overpaid officers sitting around to bust people for jaywalking.

Can you imagine other civil servants acting like this? Firemen, judges ("I don't have to explain why he's guilty!"), postal workers, hell even garbage men are more accountable for their actions. When is the last time a city rioted because of a sanitation worker abusing authority?

@2 - i agree, would the last officer leaving please turn the lights out at SPOG?

Oh, and give us back our video cams so we can keep taping you when you cross the line, k?

Looks like it's time for me to bring back the "I support the police strike bumper stickers"!

Oh no, they have to accept real accountability measures if they want their pay raise?!

Cry me a fucking river, SPD. The misconduct of your officers is widely reported and yet few of the offending officers are ever disciplined.

You want to make better money? Grow the fuck up and start acting like professionals. I have NO sympathy for whiny police officers on this issue. Real accountability is needed, and needed now.

Spog and the fire fighters union lunge at any chance to be offended...which is funny since they think they are tough enough to hold those jobs.

but unions are good for workers right?