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Old 04-02-2022, 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive View Post
...The assumption being that all cops working on commission would milk the system for every possible cent?

I don't agree. I've known many people who work on commission who are also as honest as the day is long. In any case you'd still have to be breaking the law to get caught, and once caught you'd have the same rights as anyone else. If you felt you WERE innocent you could plead not guilty, go to court, and make the cop prove you broke the law.
Massachusetts just went through a scandal with state police that were falsifying hours they worked on a federal grant to stop speeders causing a whole troop to be disbanded and many of them having criminal charges filed against them the troopers were already making over $1000 ,000 with legal overtime , in Boston we just had cops in the evidence room cheating on hours they got paid for not working , cops are not pure just because there cops