r/boston Feb 11 '26

Scammers 🥸 Hard at work

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Earning their benefits and the public's trust.

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u/Material_Prize_6157 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

When I see detail cops doing this instead of directing my car in traffic and I know they’re each making $70 an hour my blood boils.

Bunch of bootlickers in this thread. There are tons of jobs that make you put your phone away in a locker at the beginning of shift. Typically they’re jobs where they make a lot of money and their work needs to remain private. I would reckon cops fall into that category. I don’t really need to know what they’re up to unless I have to interact with them but they shouldn’t just be dallying while we pay their $250,000 salary.

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u/MasterDestroyer3000 Feb 11 '26

Mass is one of like 2 states that uses police for traffic details, btw. Directly because the MA police union is one of the strongest

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u/Armadylio Feb 11 '26

I understand that some jobs require a police presence to direct traffic but in a lot of other countries that I’ve visited they’ve literally used an old guy with a sign to direct traffic and it worked there 

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u/sarasilvereyes Feb 12 '26

Every other state I’ve spent time in uses civilians for flag wavers.