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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2014 21:01:14 GMT -5
With the village police agencies, ultimately, the residents & the mayors/council members have the leverage to do this because if the local PBA says no, they can say "well, there is the County Police, and they can do your job, so perhaps you should do what WE want." Your absolutely right. The villages can decide to dissolve their own PD and have the county do it. To dissolve our job they would need the state to take over and that will never happen. Our highway patrol is threatened by a state takeover now and then but that's it.
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Post by crates on Feb 26, 2014 22:20:57 GMT -5
Who threatens state take over of our highways? Levy? The state doesn't want more to do down here. They can't even cover their posts upstate.
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Post by rabbit on Feb 27, 2014 0:54:28 GMT -5
How is that poorly worded??? They are talking about year ending totals of 2013, LAST year, they Can't go by 2014 totals, this year has just begun. I say it's poorly worded if they are stating that the cap is $150,000. As it reads now it sounds like they are capping anyone's pay that exceeded $150000 in 2013 going forward. They didn't give a number for officers that exceeded $150000 in 2014 in that sentence and they didn't say that they wanted to cap it for cops in 2014 at $150,000. Okay, I'll go slow, the article infers that a cap of $150,000 will be set for 2014 & forward, it cannot be set for 2013 because that already passed and they did NOT have a cap in place at that time, that is why they're saying whose ever salary exceeded $150,000 in 2013, meaning future tense. The article states that 24 officers exceeded $150,000 in 2013 how are they going to give a total number of officers for year ending 2014 when we're only in the 2nd month of 2014??? "The proposal, outlined in a letter to the police union president Wednesday, comes as village officials prepare their 2014-2015 budget and weeks after the release of a New York State Comptroller's report that identified Amityville as one of the most fiscally stressed villages in the state." It is blatantly obvious that they are talking about capping PO's for 2014 and forward, that's the main idea of the entire article.
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Post by crates on Feb 27, 2014 1:25:09 GMT -5
You are stating that it is implied. The news should be implied it should be clearly stated. You are assuming that $150,000 is the cap. It's funny how that is the number that news day uses to give our average salaries. No need to go slow for me. I am just stating that the article was poorly written.
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Post by rabbit on Feb 27, 2014 6:00:05 GMT -5
You are stating that it is implied. The news should be implied it should be clearly stated. You are assuming that $150,000 is the cap. It's funny how that is the number that news day uses to give our average salaries. No need to go slow for me. I am just stating that the article was poorly written. I was just pointing facts that you stated were Not in the article and they clearly were.
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Post by smallville on Feb 27, 2014 7:44:36 GMT -5
The county is broke. But what do we do about it? We've made our contribution, Joy.
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Post by tim2188 on Feb 27, 2014 10:03:57 GMT -5
Who threatens state take over of our highways? Levy? The state doesn't want more to do down here. They can't even cover their posts upstate. The County has threatened to remove HPB from the expressway in the past, but that hasn't come up in probably the last 10 + years.
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Post by luvinretrmnt on Feb 27, 2014 10:19:21 GMT -5
The county is broke. But what do we do about it? We've made our contribution, Joy. The county wants you to think there broke...........The way good old ed is spending money, new turf fields for the whole county, double ice skating rinks at Eisenhower Park, supped up Tahoe's for every politician in the county, every building getting a face lift, the list is endless.....If you believe for a second the county has no money.I got a bridge to sell you...lol
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Post by k9packerspd on Feb 27, 2014 10:41:40 GMT -5
Like mrwizard said, they don't have enough cops to put a cap at 150k. If 20 of the 24 cops earned more then 150k in Amityville then how do you stop that for the next year? It wasn't 3 or 4 cops who made that much, it was 83% of the ENTIRE DEPARTMENT!! You would have to hire, OR, on the next shooting/robbery/burg that occurs at 1850, everyone does police work for five, maybe six minutes then goes home. Let crime run a muck, don't want to ruin a politicians bonus by going over that cap!
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Post by crates on Feb 27, 2014 12:25:45 GMT -5
Like mrwizard said, they don't have enough cops to put a cap at 150k. If 20 of the 24 cops earned more then 150k in Amityville then how do you stop that for the next year? It wasn't 3 or 4 cops who made that much, it was 83% of the ENTIRE DEPARTMENT!! You would have to hire, OR, on the next shooting/robbery/burg that occurs at 1850, everyone does police work for five, maybe six minutes then goes home. Let crime run a muck, don't want to ruin a politicians bonus by going over that cap! Unless they workout some other compensation. Don't know how grieving time would work. I think this is just wishful thinking on the part of the village and nothing more. Even if they got rid of the village pd it would cost them about the same for the county to take over, and they lose the control of their dept. how many village pd have closed over the years? One or two in the past 10?
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