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Let 'em quit.Maybe hire smarter people, and more people of color, next time.

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Might get a whole slew of better ones in the process.

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Thinking about this, I was just reading about years of corruption in the ranks of New Mexico, particularly Albuquerque, police. It's an ongoing nightmare of a story.

Will be a real challenge to reform situations like that.

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124 of 233 total police line of duty deaths so far this year have been because of COVID. Last year it was 241 of 370. https://www.odmp.org/search...

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My daughter's high school buddy became an Albuquerque cop and she changed from a fun-loving and fairly reasonable young woman to a miserable right-wing Trumper over about a decade. Sucks.

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As a self-employed person I'm a slave driver, but then again I have a 10 step commute and take time off whenever I get distracted or just want some fresh air. If I didn't love doing what I do for money I might get angry at my boss (me) but really it doesn't seem like work.

Most Americans get squat for paid time off. Even when they get it they usually get screwed.

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Not that I agree with the intent behind the photo, and I don't disagree that it might be staged, but how do you account for her hair blowing back?

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I'm 100% in favor of cops being unvaccinated.

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Chief Anthony Holloway. "Mike wanted to make sure that person, that victim in that accident, got justice." COVID.

There. I fixed it for him.

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I think one chain even has special cups -just- for the cops too. Sycophantic enough?

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Please proceed, you racist pigs!! We'll be better off without your violent, racist, white supremacist asses. I also love how in another area, tons of cops threatened to quit over vaccine mandates. Buh bye! Who knew purging the bad apples would be so easy?

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Vaccine mandates sure do seem like an efficient way to get rid of bad cops.

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Here one hour of overwork earns you one hour of paid time off,, and after a cutoff point it earns you 1.5 hours paid time off. usually 2 hours later it starts earning you 2 hours paid time off. Likewise, saturday is 150% on normal hours and 200% on evening or night hours, and sunday and holidays are 200%. This is especially effective on national holidays that fall on a sunday, then you get 300%.

You can choose to have that paid as wages, but because extra income gets taxed at the maximum, most people don't. The maths don't actually make sense, since both the paid time off and the extra wages are usually taxed at the maximum (unless you are at the edge of a tax bracket and you decide to take exactly enough time off to not go a different bracket, but even then the difference between brackets is not that big, think 51% -> 55% or something like that)

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A portable fan.

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