Phoenix imposes cuts on police pay in late, tense session

[Red Green]

Phoenix imposes cuts on police pay in late, tense session
Dustin Gardiner, The Republic | azcentral.com 11:36 p.m. MST May 7, 2014
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(Photo: Michael Schennum/The Republic)

Despite hours of contentious debate and warnings of political repercussions, Phoenix City Council members voted 5-4 on Wednesday to impose a labor contract with pay and benefit cuts on the city's 2,386 police officers.

Dozens of officers filled the council's chambers to rail against the contract. The vote highlighted a new level of discord between the city and its largest employee union as well as a bitter split between the unions representing police and firefighters in Phoenix, the nation's sixth-largest city.

It is the first time in city history that the council has voted to impose a contract on one of the city's five labor unions. Each of the other four unions with collective-bargaining rights agreed to contracts with cuts to help the city solve a $37.7 million deficit in the coming fiscal year, which starts July 1.

Leaders of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association argued that they should be spared a compensation reduction given the dangerous nature of their jobs and a hiring freeze that has strained the force.

Continued: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news...s-cuts-police-pay-late-tense-session/8838737/

Poor piggies are squealing that they don't get a pay raise. Poor, poor piggies.

The PPD are the worst bunch of tax-grabbing scum to ever walk the earth. If you ever have a real crime to report, they'll get around to it when they're damn good and ready. Be prepared to do most of the paperwork yourself.

And here Sal Diciccio, who fancies himself a small-government fiscal hawk was complaining that the poor piggies got a pay cut. Just goes to show you you cannot trust GOP politicians, regardless of their rhetoric.

 

[Cleaner44]

If the cops don't like it, they can always leave. Their choice is to work for a public government with a limited budget. If their above average incomes aren't good enough, I suggest they find employment with a private company and help them increase their profits. Of course that new job may not hire dipshits to assault people, but if that is what you want to do, your choices might be limited.

 

[jtap]

If the cops don't like it, they can always leave. Their choice is to work for a public government with a limited budget. If their above average incomes aren't good enough, I suggest they find employment with a private company and help them increase their profits. Of course that new job may not hire dipshits to assault people, but if that is what you want to do, your choices might be limited.

I wish they would leave...but because of what the job asks of them, not the pay.

The only other way to have positive chance in the police would be to have a bunch of cops join together to refuse to enforce BS laws. That would be akin to having a majority of Liberty politicians though and the country isn't anywhere near that.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

I wish they would leave...but because of what the job asks of them, not the pay.

The only other way to have positive chance in the police would be to have a bunch of cops join together to refuse to enforce BS laws. That would be akin to having a majority of Liberty politicians though and the country isn't anywhere near that.

Anything that gets them to leave is good in my book. Not enough pay? I hope it's a real problem, but I highly doubt it is because the piggies know they make good money for what they do. They make absurd money for what they do. It's not just the money, either. It's the power, and the protection against prosecution by the state. They aren't going to leave because they know damn well they get paid plenty, but the greedy bastards want more.

 

[Red Green]

Anything that gets them to leave is good in my book. Not enough pay? I hope it's a real problem, but I highly doubt it is because the piggies know they make good money for what they do. They make absurd money for what they do. It's not just the money, either. It's the power, and the protection against prosecution by the state. They aren't going to leave because they know damn well they get paid plenty, but the greedy bastards want more.

Not to mention the money and goods they manage to skim as part of the job and the BJs they get from women desperate to get out of a traffic ticket.

Fucking overpaid thugs.... if I lived in Phoenix I would be hammering all the council members over not cutting these fuckers even more.

 

[Philhelm]

Not to mention the money and goods they manage to skim as part of the job and the BJs they get from women desperate to get out of a traffic ticket.

I wonder how often that really happens.

 

[Red Green]

I wonder how often that really happens.

More often than one might think I would venture, but someone would have to take a poll of women to see who was willing to do the deed to get out of a traffic ticket.

 

[juleswin]

Lovely and along with that, I hope the legislators are also giving themselves a wage freeze. The problem with pissing off the cops is that they can just become more corrupt in their dealing with citizens. You can now expect more speed traps, property forfeitures, vice stings etc etc. With the kind of power they have, you most likely will end up paying for it in a different way.

 

[kathy88]

I wonder how often that really happens.

I know of 7 or 8 times just here locally. And no, not me.

 

[Danke]

I know of 7 or 8 times just here locally. And no, not me.

 

[Red Green]

I know of 7 or 8 times just here locally. And no, not me.

I wish 20/20 "To Catch a Predator" would do a few shows on cops.

 

[specsaregood]

And here Sal Diciccio, who fancies himself a small-government fiscal hawk was complaining that the poor piggies got a pay cut. Just goes to show you you cannot trust GOP politicians, regardless of their rhetoric.

It's tough to say NO to the guys actually holding the guns.

 

[Philhelm]

I know of 7 or 8 times just here locally. And no, not me.

Who usually makes the proposition?

 

[coastie]

More often than one might think I would venture, but someone would have to take a poll of women to see who was willing to do the deed to get out of a traffic ticket.

Well, I've had at least one admit to me of doing it. Who knows if she's full of shit, but she's "that type", so.....


Also, this seems like an ultra-quick way to get one's dick bit off.

The mouth of whomever you're threatening with violence seems to be the last place you'd want to put it.

 

[kathy88]

Who usually makes the proposition?

In these cases it was the cop. The same cop. Got fired from one town and is a cop in a neighboring town.

 

[Red Green]

In these cases it was the cop. The same cop. Got fired from one town and is a cop in a neighboring town.

The pig was probably fine with that. Just gives him some fresh meat to work over.

 

[ghengis86]

I know of 7 or 8 times just here locally. And no, not me.

I know of two, but it was to get out of a prostitution collar and they were whores afterall (the cops, that is)

 

[angelatc]

My sister-in-laws mother got pulled over for speeding. A week later she left her family and moved in with the cop. I would assume she got out of the ticket.

 

[LibForestPaul]

Don't care about the money. Every damn public employee with their contracts is what irks me. Does the teller at the bank have a contract, cashier at the local store, pharmacist, grease monkey, no, but hey work for the state, get a contract.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Dozens of officers filled the council's chambers to rail against the contract

Wonder how many got arrested and hauled off?

Oh, yeah...