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34 minutes ago, Bevo said:

What would y’all do to motivate the police? If your children wanted to be policemen in Austin, what would you tell them about the job? Would those words encourage such a career? 

Do your children enjoy sugary breakfast treats and watching YouTube videos in an idling car?

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Some stuff I looked up:

How much does an Austin Police Officer make?

Base Pay:

  • While in academy, $60,000 per year.  After graduation, base pay rises to $70,644
  • After 1 year, base pay rises to $79,277
  • After 2 years, base pay rises to $87,498
  • After 10 years, base pay hits $100,176 .. and tops out at $118,132

Officers can earn overtime pay and other pay stipends based on language skills, certifications, education, etc.  These might add $10,000 or so to base pay, for those that qualify.

This job requires a high school diploma or GED, US citizenship, a drivers license, the ability to read, write and speak English, and either 12 semester hours of college credit or 2 years in the military or two years of work experience.  You have to be 20.5 years of age to enter the academy.  You can graduate high school, work two years somewhere, and you are good to apply.

The job comes with health benefits and a pension.  Officers get 150 hours of vacation, 150 hours of sick leave, 88 hours of holiday leave, three personal holidays and 16 hours of wellness leave.  Officers work four 10 hour days in a row, then have three days off.  At 10 hrs per day, they have about 43 days of leave per year, if you add up all of their vacation/sick/personal/etc.  They can take an additional 120 hours for military leave.

Most of my data is from here: https://www.austintexas.gov/apdrecruiting/pay-benefits

How dangerous is it to be an Austin Police Officer?

I could not find data on officer injuries, but the city lists 29 officers killed in the line of duty from 1875-2025:

https://www.austintexas.gov/page/officers-killed-line-duty

I count eleven that were killed by gun violence and fourteen killed in a vehicular collision.  One had a heart attack.

Three were killed by COVID in Fall 2021, which was after vaccines were rolled out.  Either they didn't get the shot or were unlucky.

The police department has about 1500 officers.  It's possible to die on the job as a police officer, but it's not common.  You are as likely to be killed in a crash as you are by a gun.

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If you make a job shitty enough, no amount of pay is going to encourage the right kind of people to take it and perform well in it. 

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8 hours ago, Bevo said:

What would y’all do to motivate the police? If your children wanted to be policemen in Austin, what would you tell them about the job? Would those words encourage such a career? 

This is a management problem, not a motivation problem.

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18 minutes ago, Bevo said:

If you make a job shitty enough, no amount of pay is going to encourage the right kind of people to take it and perform well in it. 

I think some of y’all just have low standards and would rather pay through the nose and passively accept whatever you get than demand responsive, effective, professional policing. 
 

At least when there’s a salad scandal to complain about, amirite?

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On 9/5/2025 at 8:21 AM, TwiceHorn said:

City licensed it to them.  SMU is kind of especially getting its ox gouged by the rapper, since they're both selling a lot of apparel, but to two distinct markets that don't necessarily want to be identified together.

 

On 9/5/2025 at 10:10 AM, ztejas said:

I don't know about that. I think SMU football is plenty cool in the hood - or at least becoming that way. 

Our starting QB won a state title for South Oak Cliff - which - excluding Carter - was DISD's first title in like 60 years. By a quick count there are 13 players on the roster just from South Dallas (SoC, Duncanville, DeSoto, Skyline). I know they do a ton of outreach to underprivileged schools and I'm sure they give out a ton of merch. They used to give out a bunch of tickets to those kids, too (not sure if they still do with it being a harder ticket now).

SMU football has put it a ton of effort and done a good job with community outreach. The city of Dallas logo is a big part of that. Think they are wearing those unis this week against Baylor.

Dallas rapper Zillionaire Doe pregame lol. (I know this is off topic so apologies - but it's a good follow up)

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Like or dislike the logo…we are literally, completely, and fully in the “everything I don’t like is woke” era.

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wtf? Its shitty. Its pointless. All kinds of things. But…”it’s ’woke?’” It’s just so fucking stupid.

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24 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Like or dislike the logo…we are literally, completely, and fully in the “everything I don’t like is woke” era.

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wtf? Its shitty. Its pointless. All kinds of things. But…”it’s ’woke?’” It’s just so fucking stupid.

 

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Like or dislike the logo…we are literally, completely, and fully in the “everything I don’t like is woke” era.

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wtf? Its shitty. Its pointless. All kinds of things. But…”it’s ’woke?’” It’s just so fucking stupid.

Dept of Defense is woke so this logo must be superwoke.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Like or dislike the logo…we are literally, completely, and fully in the “everything I don’t like is woke” era.

bcb6ea341462e21304a78eb60a8ed5e4.png


wtf? Its shitty. Its pointless. All kinds of things. But…”it’s ’woke?’” It’s just so fucking stupid.

The font is good. Ditch the "A" design and replace it with some kind of Star and Rotunda thing and call it a day. PM me for my inbound wire info, and I expect the taxpayer to cover the bank fees.

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25 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

I’d at least like we know what kind of upgrade we could get at $1.2m…

Something even woker 

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