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[Shnurek]

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How exactly did you "take them to court"?

By getting their badge numbers, precinct, rank and writing down everything that happened immediately after the incident including the date & time. Ask any lawyer this is exactly what you should do.

 

[JackShephard MD]

How exactly did you "take them to court"?

 

[Shnurek]

lol

 

[45408]

By getting their badge numbers, precinct, rank and writing down everything that happened immediately after the incident including the date & time. Ask any lawyer this is exactly what you should do.

This didn't happen.

 

[Perrotfish]

Not so much now. They're capped at 16 hour shifts with no call. I had 30 hour call, mostly Q4, and then when the interns got taken out of our call pool, it dropped a mere 28 hour call, but I was doing it even more often. Not only that, but I didn't have as many lighter rotations to balance it out like intern year.

I know this is both specialty and hospital dependent. I'm in Pediatrics, and all the programs I rotated through are on a strict night float/day float shift system. Interns work 80 hours/week (12 hour shift + 1 hour sign out and wrap up x 6 days a week) on at least 8 months of inpatient rotations. Second and third year residents generally alternated shifts on inpatient rotations with each senior taking 3 full shifts and 3 8 shifts that start at noon/week (60 hour weeks), while also generally taking more outpatient months with weekends off, possibly up to half of their year if they do easier electives.

The two surgery programs I did my cores at were doing the system you described, which I guess would be harder on senior residents. I didn't realize that the number of easy rotations also decreased as you went on, though. That sucks. Y'all deserve the higher paychecks at the end of that road.

 

[Perrotfish]

This didn't happen.

I don't know. Putting in a baseless complaint against a police officer is even easier that baselessly suing a physicin. You don't even need a lawyer, just the endurance to fill out a series of forms.

 

[GreenStyle]

How exactly did you "take them to court"?

Can no one respond to Shnurek....he is a well known trolllllololoololoolololol

:troll:

 

[circulus vitios]

I am certain my life would have been better at this point if I were a cop. NYPD cops make $100k and 4weeks vacations 5yrs in. This would have been me right now.. And I'd have time and money to play sports, read books, travel to Greece..

NYPD cops start off at $35k/year. http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/faq/faq_police.shtml

Have fun putting your life on the line for a city you can't even afford to live in.

 

[michaelrack]

NYPD cops start off at $35k/year. http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/faq/faq_police.shtml

Have fun putting your life on the line for a city you can't even afford to live in.

have fun saving lives in a hospital you can't even afford to stay in

 

[Ballints]

NYPD cops start off at $35k/year. http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/faq/faq_police.shtml

Have fun putting your life on the line for a city you can't even afford to live in.

I don't know what kind of link you posted. But as far as I remember it was $35k/yr starting while you're in the academy for 6months. 5yrs in (i.e. at 26yo when i started med school) it is 100k. And thats 4shifts per week. Police is not a very dangerous job. Unlike some people, I actually worked with cops and lived in NYC for a while. I could be on vacation in Greece right now, could even afford to take some hot girl from eastern europe on vacation with me.

 

[Ballints]

If you want this that is almost the exact same pay scale as a Navy HPSP student during the first 10 years of year career (slightly less in the first few years, a bit more after). HPSP also has potentially higher pay late career pay and earlier retirement. Arguably less danger too, depending on the state of foreign policy.

There are a couple of problems with this. I did not get into med school at 21, did not even finish college at that point. Right now if I were to apply for hpsp, I would only get paid for years 3&4 but still get all those commitments. $25k/yr salary as a student (especially when you arebusy studying 80hrs/wk) is the same to me as having 0 disposable income, which is why I am living frugally right now. To get any benefits of medical career with hpsp or without you need to finish med school first. I haven't done any clinical medicine but I am already afraid that I'll get kicked out in year 3 for being incompetent, for breaking down. If I am successful, it will certainly take much more effort than to keep that stable job as a cop. And NYPD cops retire 20yrs in at 41yo. If they accumulate a lot of overtime in the last year, they may get a $100k pension. Sure you can keep working as a dr into old age, but $100k/yr is enough to retire in a low col country like greece.

 

[Ballints]

LOL I had many of my friends want to become cops and I know many cops that hate their lives. You have to pass a personality test to even be eligible to get employed. They basically want sociopaths with little or no emotions.

The cops here are insanely aggressive and they plant weed on teenagers in ghetto areas and arrest them for it when they ask them to empty their pockets. (Marijuana possession here is an infraction punishable by a ticket but if it is public view it is a misdemeanor so you may be arrested) They are total scumbags and there is so much police corruption here 95% of people have no clue what goes on. I just spoke to current and former cops and why they left and almost all of them complain that there are too many dirty cops.

I had to take one set of narcotics detectives to court because of how ridiculous they are. A lot of them are basically criminals with high school educations, guns and badges. I mean I understand that its best to fight fire with fire but it is so polarized here that being a cop sounds good when you watch COPS on TV or something but when you are actually dealing with the s**t of society on a daily basis you begin to really realize what you have done.

You do a personality test in some depts, in nypd i think it's just an interview. I do not know the details but before the financial crisis it was not competitive to become a cop here (it was always harder in rich suburbs like nassau/suffolk). Sure some cops are scumbags just like some drs are scumbags. But most people that I know would not want to be cops just because "they are not prestigious". The more thoughtful ones are more diplomatic and state "you are very polite and would not fit in among cops, but the job does have some good points". By the way Shnurek, I do not know what your name means but it sounds east european. What kind of ghetto did you live in? I remember drinking on my job while a cop (who seemed much more affable and stable emotionally than I) told me how he got this cool new jeep at a DUI auction for $7k.

 

[JackShephard MD]

I don't know what kind of link you posted. But as far as I remember it was $35k/yr starting while you're in the academy for 6months. 5yrs in (i.e. at 26yo when i started med school) it is 100k. And thats 4shifts per week. Police is not a very dangerous job. Unlike some people, I actually worked with cops and lived in NYC for a while. I could be on vacation in Greece right now, could even afford to take some hot girl from eastern europe on vacation with me.

Then stop whining and do it.

 

[CaptainSSO]

Then stop whining and do it.

Seriously.

 

[Rothbard]

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