Police officers make pretty good money, although I would advocate for more base pay with higher bar to entry and a broad change in culture to be more pro-active

Police officers make pretty good money, although I would advocate for more base pay with higher bar to entry and a broad change in culture to be more pro-actively helpful and less violent. Austin $62k-102k for low level officers, before overtime. Most police departments in metropolitan areas seem to offer lots of overtime potential, which can sometimes triple an officer's pay if they work an admittedly incredible number of hours. But it does happen that low level officers take home over $200k in LCOL cities like Houston.