Good for you and your cozy administrative job. Let me guess, you made the same or more to sit behind a desk? Your "higher than thou" attitude is shameless. You're no better than a McD's burger flipper. 

We can certainly disagree about this all day, but your referring to whiny cops is hypocritical! Here you are whining about how grossly overpaid they are.

You can't have it all. You want good officers then pay up. If you're ok with a bumbling idiot with a gun, then by all means lets cap their salaries at 60k, strike out all premium pays, bonuses, etc. and see what that nets you. You'll either have a bare bones force with insufficient man power or they'll have to lower their standards. I can't recall the last time I heard AST say they've got plenty of applicants...

But who knows, you're not behind the helm anymore so maybe I should go sign up to be a whiner? What do ya think!?