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I was between jobs this time last year, and started rooting around in my local town's salary publications. In the top 50 salaries for my mid-size MA town, about 50% were police (starting at places 2, 3, 4 and then like 8?), with the average salary (including overtime) at about 175k$.

There are also 54 people listed as working as "[XXX] police [XXX]", in a town of 41k.

For the record, there is an average of one violent crime a day in my town, and stats like 7 projected rapes in 2020 (0 murders).

Whether or not that's all justified, I leave as an exercise to the reader.