Minimum wage for officers?
If you read the paper from time to time, you may have heard something about forward-thinking cities like Seattle raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour. So what does that have to do with police officers and the associations that represent their interests? The answer is simple – if the national minimum wage was what it is in Seattle, cops in Maine would be getting a raise. Pay is so low in some parts of Maine that sheriff’s deputies are staging high-visibility protests.