Cops Thirteen To Nineteen Weeks Of Training Better Paid Than Teachers With Seven To Eight Years Of College…

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A teacher in Louisiana and Mississippi makes around forty to fifty thou­sand dol­lars( $40.000 to $50.000) annu­al­ly. Usually, that per­son must com­plete four years of under­grad­u­ate stud­ies, then anoth­er two years of post-grad­u­ate work, depend­ing on the per­son­’s sched­ule to earn a mas­ter’s degree…
Some Masters’s pro­grams can be com­plet­ed in less than two years if the stu­dent goes to school full-time, but it can also take more time. So on aver­age, it takes about six years to get to the lev­el of becom­ing a Teacher.
During the course of those stud­ies, a young per­son can rack up stu­dent loan debts of nine­ty to a hun­dred thou­sand dollars.
A police recruit spends an aver­age of 13 to 19 weeks in an acad­e­my. During train­ing, a police cadet is paid a salary; the salary will depend on the city, town, or munic­i­pal­i­ty where the cadet is being trained.
Teachers are some­times forced to use their own mon­ey to pur­chase crit­i­cal sup­plies to help their stu­dents. This is despite the low salaries they are paid. No one becomes any­thing with­out teach­ers, yet teach­ers are not giv­en the com­pen­sa­tion and respect they deserve.
Young peo­ple are [not] lin­ing up to be teach­ers and for good rea­sons. Factors impact­ing teacher reten­tion include heavy work­load, low pay, and esca­lat­ing liv­ing costs, with some 80% of sur­vey respon­dents say­ing it was dif­fi­cult to find afford­able hous­ing close to where they teach. Many also cit­ed a lack of sup­port from dis­trict administrators.

Officers receive a full start­ing salary while train­ing at a police acad­e­my. In most cas­es, the police acad­e­my is a six-month train­ing peri­od, includ­ing the NYPD and LAPD, in which you are trained in the law, how to use a weapon, and how to con­duct your­self as an offi­cer of the law. Once you suc­cess­ful­ly grad­u­ate police acad­e­my, you will like­ly get a bump in salary. Depending on the police depart­ment where you work, this salary bump can be as much as $2,000 or $3,000 more than what you earned while training.
The Los Angeles Police Department, for exam­ple, starts new recruits at $67,546 a year. In Philadelphia, recruits in the police acad­e­my earn $56,227, while in Austin, Texas, cadets receive $50,000 in base salary. Police cadets can also enroll in the department’s health care plan. They become eli­gi­ble for employ­er- and self-fund­ed retire­ment-plan­ning options, such as a pen­sion, 401k, or a 457b deferred retire­ment sav­ings plan. During your first year of ser­vice, you also get paid vaca­tion days and paid sick leave.
If you have a col­lege degree, or even col­lege cred­its, at the time of hire. There can be many oth­er incen­tives, depend­ing on the police force. In Austin, for exam­ple, you may be eli­gi­ble for an addi­tion­al $100 per month if you have an asso­ci­ate’s degree or $220 month­ly if you have a bach­e­lor’s degree. If you’re bilin­gual, expect an extra $175 per month in pay in Austin, Texas.
A cop in Suffolk coun­ty New York makes a base salary of $149,162; work­ing over­time, that cop can make expo­nen­tial­ly more than a US Senator.
Factors impact­ing teacher reten­tion include heavy work­load, low pay, and esca­lat­ing liv­ing costs, with some 80% of sur­vey respon­dents say­ing it was dif­fi­cult to find afford­able hous­ing near where they teach. Many also cit­ed a lack of sup­port from dis­trict administrators.

Some police salaries are so out­ra­geous that some peo­ple are begin­ning to speak out in dis­gust. On one social media site, one such dis­gust­ed per­son wrote.
MS of Science from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (Graduated 2020). Police & Firefighters in California are the high­est com­pen­sat­ed in the entire world. Whoever tells you that is not true they are prob­a­bly talk­ing about the low­er cost of liv­ing cities of California. Here’s an exam­ple of a police offi­cer in San Mateo, California. He joined the force in May 2019, and his total com­pen­sa­tion for 2020 was 221KGoogle engi­neers in the first three years don’t bring this kind of mon­ey. I work a salary job, have an advanced degree, and live in San Mateo; I don’t bring this kind of mon­ey home. This is INSANE. The high­est-paid cop in Oakland made 640K a year, more than the President of the USOf course, cops will be cocky and dis­re­spect­ful when you pay them like CA does, walk­ing with a gun and a bul­let­proof vest and mak­ing 3 – 4 times the nation­al aver­age. Police are so out of real­i­ty that $250 (min­i­mum tick­et in Bay Area) might seem like not a lot of mon­ey, espe­cial­ly since they live on 200K+ income. People sym­pa­thize with cops (like I used to) as they believe their “hard job” is not appre­ci­at­ed and they don’t get paid enough. No way should a police offi­cer should get more than a sol­dier on the bat­tle­field thou­sands of miles away from home.

THE SO-CALLED DANGER LEVEL

Workplace safe­ty is very impor­tant in all indus­tries. Avoiding acci­dents and fatal­i­ties is a huge con­sid­er­a­tion for all busi­ness­es, from small pri­vate­ly-owned com­pa­nies to large nation­wide cor­po­ra­tions. Positions like teach­ing and admin­is­tra­tion have fatal­i­ty rates just slight­ly above zero because mis­takes in these indus­tries rarely result in phys­i­cal con­se­quences. The world’s most dan­ger­ous jobs are on the oth­er end of the spec­trum. These jobs bear a far greater sta­tis­ti­cal risk of phys­i­cal injury and death. (fac​ty​.com)

25 Most Dangerous Jobs
  1. Logging work­ers. Fatal injury rate: 111 per 100,000 workers. …
  2. Aircraft pilots and flight engi­neers. Fatal injury rate: 53 per 100,000 workers. …
  3. Derrick oper­a­tors in oil, gas, and mining. …
  4. Roofers. …
  5. Garbage col­lec­tors. …
  6. Ironworkers. …
  7. Delivery dri­vers. 
  8. Farmers
  9. fire­fight­ing supervisors
  10. Power line­men
  11. Agricultural work­ers
  12. Crossing guards
  13. Crane oper­a­tors
  14. Construction helpers
  15. Landscaping super­vi­sors
  16. Highway main­te­nance workers
  17. Cement masons
  18. Small engine mechanics
  19. Supervisors of Mechanics
  20. Heavy vehi­cle mechanics
  21. Grounds main­te­nance workers
  22. cops
  23. Maintenance work­ers
  24. Construction work­ers
  25. Mining machine operators
This study was done with data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. They stud­ied pro­fes­sions with min­i­mum employ­ment of 50,000 work­ers to find the 25 most dan­ger­ous jobs among 263 total pro­fes­sions in the study. The fatal­i­ty rate was nor­mal­ized by adjust­ing the num­ber of fatal­i­ties by employ­ment in each pro­fes­sion. (facil​i​ties​.udel​.edu)
So that you have an idea when you hear cops, their unions, and their enablers com­plain about the dan­ger­ous job they have, you have some perspective.
Why both­er going to col­lege for sev­en or more years to get qual­i­fied to become a teacher? Take on $90.000 in debt when you can go into a police acad­e­my for 13 to 19 weeks and start receiv­ing a salary and all kinds of ben­e­fits immediately.
The empha­sis is clear­ly not on edu­cat­ing our youth; it is about giv­ing them the least edu­ca­tion­al oppor­tu­ni­ties so that they can con­tin­ue to become fod­der for the prison indus­tri­al complex.
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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.