re: BRPD has a great retirement benefit.

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My point is that the advocate pulled what seems to me to be an extreme case where an officer is making a significant overtime per-hour salary that is not available to most. Also, without this type of retirement available my dad would not have been able to stop working until SS kicked in. He wouldn't have had the option.

Just thought I would give an example that is much more common and realistic. Flame away.

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In that case, you should be glad for the Advocate's piece because either some bad apples are engaging in borderline (or outright) fraud or there's a good old boy system where a favored few are getting plum overtime assignments and pay and the correlating retirement benefits, leaving the rank and file like your dad out in the cold.

Of course, step 2 is getting the Baton Rouge citizenry as well as the BRPDs that are getting screwed outraged enough to investigate and demand change but that may be asking a bit too much.