Andrew Dickens Afternoons

So I see the average police salary is a tick over $67,000.Is that enough money to convince you to work all night, in the crap and the vomit and the violence and the anger and the pure emotion, to deal with the least likable sector of our society, some of whom are barely above feral animals?To risk your physical well-being and to risk condemnation from social justice warriors observing from the comfy armchairs if, in a split second, you make an error of procedure? To know that unless you’re one of the few who get to the top then this will never be a career that can take you to retirement because of the toll it takes on your body.Is $67,000 enough to make you take all that on?No, I didn’t think so.And if you were a youngster looking at the starting constables salary of $56,000, would you be thinking I’ll have some of that? When you realise that most of your squadmates are only earning 10 grand more than that after their years of stress and abuse? Or would you be looking at what the nurses have just been offered