Jason Coupet: Yeah man, anecdotally, I had so many stories in Chicago like this. It’s hard to find people that believe you but i swear there are Chicago cops with 15 years experience that earn what experienced specialist doctors make. And those same cops call some English prof making $65k elitist.

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Yeah man, anecdotally, I had so many stories in Chicago like this. It’s hard to find people that believe you but i swear there are Chicago cops with 15 years experience that earn what experienced specialist doctors make. And those same cops call some English prof making $65k elitist.
- Jake Grumbach jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Jan 31
  I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
  One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did
  
  One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?
  
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babski handle.invalid · Jan 31
Minneapolis: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
One Minneapolis police lieutenant earned about $500,000 last year amid record overtime costs

MPD says 66 of its employees collected more than $100,000 in overtime in 2024. Internal Affairs is investigating several officers.

startribune.com

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