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apocalypticanow.bsky.social • 266 days ago

The police are defunding us.

The new Minneapolis Police Department contract would push officers' *starting* pay to $92,000 by next summer.

Starting salary for Minneapolis Public School teachers will be $51,000 for 2024-2025.

minnesotareformer.com/2024/06/21/u...

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didier21.bsky.social•266 days ago

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blushandmumble.bsky.social•266 days ago

Maybe we should see what’s changed since the MDHR and DOJ reports a few years ago before anyone there gets a higher rate of pay.

professorfurious.bsky.social•265 days ago

https://www.vox.com/2023/12/23/24012514/police-crime-data-solve-rate-eddie-garcia-today-explained

404apathy.bsky.social•265 days ago

I was going to comment that people do not routinely shoot at teachers, but that stance is no longer valid.

zbigalke.bsky.social•265 days ago

They don't routinely shoot at thugs with badges, either. Only 378 out of more than 70,000 police were shot in 2023, according to the FOP (which would have a vested interest in selling as big a number as possible).

knowsit.bsky.social•265 days ago

Pay teachers and get the kids before the police can

rheumecraig.bsky.social•265 days ago

Put in perspective, that’s nearly twice what I was making as a medicine resident (MD completed) in MPLS.

energetic-nova.bsky.social•263 days ago

Ours were only making like 40k a year and it was a struggle to hire at that amount…. Prob cause all these big cities pay like this.

benzored.bsky.social•266 days ago

I mean sure they're paid a lot, but they're also armed and can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

professorfurious.bsky.social•265 days ago

See? It's like that win-win I keep talking about.

electricchimp.bsky.social•151 days ago

people need to understand this

southaustinhippy.bsky.social•265 days ago

And the teacher's don't get to shoot the students if the kids annoy them and don't follow orders.

fatguyonabike.org•266 days ago

And in some places they require less training hours than a hairdresser does.

professorfurious.bsky.social•265 days ago

Well, under American law hairdressers are allowed much heavier armament so I can see how it might be different.

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