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Originally Posted by RPD931 @ Tue 05 Oct, 2004 15:00

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Originally Posted by Sarge31 @ Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:46 pm

How does any college justify paying security officers $23 per hour. Unbelievable!!! Big money to lock doors.

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I consider Campus PO's a fellow/equal brother of the LE field. Your arrogance is disgusting and unprofessional. In some of the Big Campus departments, they have "Security" and "police Officers". The Security Officers often man desks and/or lock doors. Police Officers do what they are suppose to do, POLICE. There are a few Campus PD's that Make more arrests than many towns do (Including Wellesley). And even in the smaller campuses, for the most part, there's not that many doors to lock... so they still spend 90% their time "policing" or available to do such.

Granted there are many Campus PO's that are just bodies, there to collect a paycheck... Just like other PO's. There are many Town PO's that are just there for a check and the bennies, they are the ones that hate to arrest people or even write a ticket... the'yre the ones that sit in a parking lot (or in some towns, at home) all night and wait for a call, while praying they don't get called. Also known as "lazy bags of shit".

How do some of these Big schools justify paying their Officers so much? Probably because their budgets/revenue are more than most towns equal to its size (population-wise). At these Big schools they are getting 30k,40k, or 50k per student. When you look at some towns average family (of 4) household income of like $60K-80k, the taxes a town sees of that is a fraction. A group of 4 students brings in 120k to 200k to the school and they get 100% of it, not just a fraction. Their budgets would blow your mind.

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Big money to lock doors

Some people say that about Municipal PO's that do nothing through their whole shift, "big money to be lazy and useless". If you're jealous, then maybe you should Join a Big Campus PD.. oterwise, screw! It's guys like you that give municpal PO's a black mark. 95% of the Municpal PO's are great guys, but in every bunch there's one like you.

For you Campus PO's making the $$$, GOOD FOR YOU!! But it seems that this guy is jealous that you make the "Big money to lock doors", so lets change that, lets be more like his attitude, Big money and do absouletly nothing.

Campus PO's do the same job as you. Granted, many of their cases may have different outcomes as they are handled by administration most of the time, but thats not the CPO's fault. Remember, they have to answer to administration just like local PD's answer to Selectmen or City Council - they ultimately rule.

But they are still in equal danger when responding to a domestic, disturbance or other emergency, in many cases more danger as they are unarmed. There are alot of activities that go on at a Campus that you will never hear about as the CPD will handle them. Often the only things you hear about are what you are called to which is less than 3% of the time. The main purpose of having a Campus PD is so that the school can handle most of the stuff internally -- it would be bad for business to let the local PD lock 'em all up.
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Being proactive is the name of the game. Being lazy and totally reactive is useless.

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