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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: Defund the Police
« Reply #540 on: October 21, 2022, 12:56:47 am »
The average teacher salary in Vancouver is $67k; the average police officer salary is $102.6k.

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/vancouver-teacher-salary-SRCH_IL.0,9_IM972_KO10,17.htm

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/vancouver-police-officer-salary-SRCH_IL.0,9_IM972_KO10,24.htm%23:~:text%3DThe%2520average%2520salary%2520for%2520a,does%2520%2524102%252C673%2520look%2520to%2520you%253F&ved=2ahUKEwjUrKLNjuv6AhWOADQIHUf7BXIQFnoECAsQBQ&usg=AOvVaw3lodjqE3wZ0ip8bbmA2Xmv

I'm not sure what you're getting at though. You say you have no idea what police budgets should be, but if they are too high it's probably the union's fault, but you don't think they're too high---at least not in Canada---but you don't know anything about police budgets. But teachers on average make a little more than half what cops do, so maybe we should worry about them.

That's not what I said at all.  Either your reading comprehension is poor or you're doing a strawman dance to prove some point that I never made.

First, I never said teacher salaries are a problem, what an odd comment.  I said public unions drive up salaries and help public employees get good pensions.  I also never said that police budgets weren't too high in Canada, I said that I don't think that budgets are contributing to problems in Canada.  I said that accountability is the main problem, not budgets.  And sure, cities can hire more people like social workers/psychologists to deal with some more minor policing problems, this will help some problems.  But it doesn't fully address problems of police abusing their authority.
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