New York City's cops rank an
astonishing 145th out of the 200 largest police departments in terms of
salary; even poverty-stricken Newark manages to pay its police 10
percent more. Those figures, and similar inequities affecting
firefighters and teachers, were widely promoted last Tuesday as some
60,000 people rallied on the Broadway side of City Hall Park. [more]
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