Reading over the story about Saturda’s\u00a0“gun buyback”, I have a question.<\/p>\n
By Joe’s\u00a0count, there were a total of six cops at the South Mpls location, most of them on overtime. \u00a0Let’s assume the same number at the North Side “buyback”.<\/p>\n
If I recall correctly, cops get about $40 an hour for overtime (someone correct me if I’m wrong.<\/p>\n
If there were six cops at each location, and they were all on overtime, that’s $480 an hour; since the event was schedule for eight hours, that means someone, somewhere budgeted just shy of $4,000 for 12\u00a0cops’ overtime…<\/p>\n
…for what is, let’s be honest, a frivolous political exercise – turning over Pillsbury donors’ money, essentially, to “artists” and owners of unserviceable firearms.<\/p>\n
So was it just Pillsbury donors, or was it also Minneapolis taxpayers paying for crappy agenda art?<\/p>\n
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Reading over the story about Saturda’s\u00a0“gun buyback”, I have a question. By Joe’s\u00a0count, there were a total of six cops at the South Mpls location, most of them on overtime. \u00a0Let’s assume the same number at the North Side “buyback”. If I recall correctly, cops get about $40 an hour for overtime (someone correct me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60126,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60110\/revisions\/60126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}