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Why on earth would you assume 200k? I’ve seen a lot of misused rhetorical terms but this is a textbook strawman falicy.

Police officers make anywhere from 43k to 63k based on a quick Google, getting massive pay bumps as they are promoted up to over 100k for police chiefs, not to mention hazard pay and usually amazing benefits. Nurses make 56k to 88k, also generally with really good benefits and a lot of overtime. It would only be a 10-20k pay bump and I would love that if it meant fewer cops with much more professional training.

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These are some really low numbers, probably from tiny towns with no resources. Police officers (and RNs) in cities make six figures easily.

Police especially are public servants and their pay is public. Just look it up in your area. It’s very common for regular officers to make six figures with overtime.

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