Newsday
You read that right. Not officer Krupke from West Side Story. This is officer Krumpter, chief-in-waiting of the mighty eleven member police department of Lloyd Harbor, New York which is on Long Island.
So what did this guy do? Well, this isn’t your ordinary retired cop. He is the former commissioner of the 2200 member Nassau County police department. As such he receives a retirement income of about $138,000 a year. A cop for 25 years. Rising to commissioner which in some cases could mean he was a pretty good cop.
Sure beats a couple of grand a month in Social Security.
But wait. There’s more. Newsday reports Krumpter walked away from his job with a payout of more than half a million in unused sick and vacation time.
Are you counting? Okay, don’t push the “=” button just yet because -- as they say on TV -- There’s still more.
If he lands that job at Lloyd Harbor, and there’s no reason to believe he won’t, he will receive an additional $183,000 a year for the two years say he would be allowed to serve.
And it’s all legal. Even though there’s a New York law that prevents retired municipal employees from what’s called “double dipping.”
This isn’t exactly dipping. It’s double gorging.
Lloyd Harbor had to get special permission from the state. It did.
Chances are Officer Krumpter is up to the new job. And chances are whoever was named chief would be paid about the same. So that’s not at issue.
People once went into civil service jobs because it was stable work. Hard to get canned. So-so pay, but the tradeoff for stability was worth it.
Postal workers, firefighters, cops, congress members, sanitation workers, paper shufflers of every description all make that choice. Perfectly legit. Even if in some places and at some eras, it was necessary for said employes to … um … show their party loyalty beyond the pages of a civil service exam by providing envelopes stuffed with cash or buying tickets to political fundraising dinners. And these days, that stability isn’t so stable.
This kind of a payday is better than taking it under the table. But it seems a little excessive.
SHRAPNEL:
--You should know that Wessays™ spares no expense in researching these stories. In this case, we had to pay for a cyber subscription to the once-almost-great Newsday newspaper. We’ll see whether that continues when the 99-cents a week deal expires.
--Here’s a media deal that’s hard to understand. The publisher of Family Circle and similar magazines, Meredith corporation, has bought Time Inc. for 3 (b) billion dollars cash $650 million of which comes from the Koch brothers. Since Time Magazine is at the bottom of its influence and Sports Illustrated is something you read in the orthopedist’s office during your endless wait, what is the benefit to the Brothers K?
--“The Brothers K” is how snootier than thou English majors refer to Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov.” We refer to the Koch brothers as such. Competition is good for the verbal economy.
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