ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHY CALIFORNIA IS GOING BROKE

San Francisco, with a population of less than one million, pays its police chief more than New York pays its chief for policing a city with a population of eight million

That’s why I call it San Fransicko. And the former Golden State, now Rusty Iron State, wants to build a high speed bullet train that will run from San Fransicko to Los Angeles and cost $98.5 billion, despite the fact that the state is going broke. That’s why I call it Kookfornia.

NATION’S HIGHEST-PAID COP IS SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF

PoliceOne.com
August 27, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO — With annual pay exceeding $300,000, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr is the highest-paid cop in the nation, according to city payroll records.

Over the course of the last fiscal year, Suhr took home a total of $321,477, a sum that — because of longevity pay given to officers with 27 years of service — was a $19,000 boost to his base salary of $302,577.

The number is higher than police chiefs' salaries in other big cities, The San Francisco Chronicle noted.

In Los Angeles, Police Chief Charlie Beck makes $307,291, and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who works in the country’s highest populated city, earns $205,180.

Suhr told the paper that San Francisco has "one of the best-compensated police departments in the country, in one of the most expensive cities in the country."

He said he does not plan to negotiate the pay raise, which has angered some city officials.

"Over $300,000 for a police chief of a city less than a million people, that’s too much money,” City supervisor John Avalos told CBS. "It doesn't seem right."