Check out police officer TCs in Mountain View: https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/mountain-view/ That's more than Google and FB engineers. Seems very unfair.
Are FAANG engineers getting shot at?
In real world shooting with police happens very rarely, unlike what you see in movies. To put things in perspective: on the job fatality rates for police officer is 1/10th that of loggers, 1/4th that of roofers and 70% less than that of taxi drivers. The risk for police offices is highly overblown.
I’d like to see stats on how often cops are shot by their fellow trigger happy officers
Being a police officer is a much more difficult job
Physically, yes. Technically, no. Apples & Oranges
It's not a physically demanding job either. They need to pass some physical endure and strength tests to graduate from police school but they don't do anything physically demanding on the job. They are not like construction workers or farmers in terms of physical labor.
Because they risk lives doing the job
Why is it unfair?
Because OP is whiny and entitled. That or a troll.
I hear all the time how tech workers are paid too much in Bay Area and force out natives. All those morons protesting and blocking Google buses. Sounds like non-techies have it good in Bay Area.
That’s total pay and benefits, not just salary.
And it's like 100k of benefits so not a small thing
See the breakdown. Lot of it is overtime and benefits
they have overtime. Their base salary is competitive though.
Have you seen LivePD?
Are you working 60 labor hours a week patrolling the streets? You are coming from the mindset of software engineers > police officers. What do you think you are? You type on your keyboard stuff you copy from stackoverflow. Get over your overblown self-importance ego.
Bullying minorities is tough work
Company checks out. I think at least 50% of the cops I’ve seen in SF are minorities.
Minorities can still bully other minorities when it's generally acceptable among their cop peers. Everybody has the potential to be asshole.