Remember the gloom and doom predictions from police union officials in 2011 about how a plan to impose a 10 percent salary cut for rookie officers would have a disastrous impact on the Oakland Police Department’s recruitment and retention efforts?
Well, guess what?
There are at least 2,300 people who still consider $70,000 a year a pretty decent starting salary – even for what veteran police officers describe as one of the most dangerous police jobs in the nation.
