We can live and work together with mutual respect.

Cops are the enemy now as far as I am concerned and I treat them all accordingly on or off duty.

I need to go into public education. Become an athletic director or superintendent. Close to or over $100 K for most towns up here in CT, and they work half a year.

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choice to you, quit complaining and go do it.

Personally I'd love to see you get some experience of the work that is done by the people you are denigrating so you could make more informed comments about them.

Thanks for your concern, though.

(PS, I work in schools, but I am not a teacher, so I don't have a dog in this fight. But I am able, unlike yourself, to avoid making ignorant comments about the work that teachers do.)

I love to see them come in, because they rarely last more than a week or so. And they leave with a very different opinion about the worth of teachers.

but I've had enough interaction with athletic directors through my profession to say that I think most are overpaid.

Our superintendent makes about $300K. An elementary principal would make over $100 K.

because I know that's what the ADs and Superintendent gets paid in my town

But I am sure it is much more than 100K in other towns in CT.

I won't be caught up in the plan of the one percenters and their right wing gov't lackeys who would try and foster bad feelings between us. I'm the proud niece of several former members of United Steelworkers, won't ever drink the kool aid!

Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.

Any member of a police force that crosses the line must be shunned by his peers if they want to maintain respect, otherwise everybody is going to hate them all.

Twenty percent however, require a lot of reform before I can support them. Guess which one of those five groups that is.

The twenty percent in question is armed to the teeth, in many cases better than our soldiers were as they deployed to war in Iraq. Uses information that is a violation of the fourth amendment, and is believed in court above all others no matter how outlandish the claim may be. When they are caught flagrantly violating the law, they often get off with a few days of paid vacation. If they are arrested, they get at most a slap on the wrist for the long honorable service they performed. Take this example if you will. A cop was convicted of hit and run accident in which the victim he ran over died, and was sentenced to one year in prison. http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2014/06/daniel_snyder_gets_in_hit-and-.html

One year. Not vehicular murder, or manslaughter, just hit and run. The bare minimum that the DA could get away with. I mean, they had to charge the cop with something right? I'm surprised they didn't ticket the body for loitering and throw a beating on him.

So I'll jump on board supporting the Firefighters, Paramedics, Teachers, and the Social workers. But if you ask for my support of the Police, you're going to have to show me that the cops deserve both my respect, and my support. Because from my experience, they don't deserve either. I could fill this page with links to stories about Police Misconduct. I couldn't do that with Teacher Misconduct, Paramedic Misconduct, Firefighter misconduct, nor Social Worker misconduct. Funny how that works out isn't it?

KILL people on a regular basis. I'll leave it up to you to guess which one.