Jackson Jambalaya

That may be so, but they are doing twice as much of nothing while on duty.

"The roster states there are 100 Master Police Officers and 39 police officers"

So there are 139 police officers patrolling Jackson in 3 shifts 24 hours a day.

Thank God for Capitol Police.

If you read the rest of the CL article, Vance said he had 212 patrol officers. I remember when he ordered M4's for his troops, it was around 300 purchased.

Schools can't hire their own crossing guards?

I'd like one of those $50K Park Ranger jobs-

Even though these are public records, I do not agree with posting these names with salaries because of threats each face every day! Too dangerous!

Apparently thug life pays even better than JPD

Ridgeland has an opening for a patrol officer, and the pay range is $52k to $67k.

JPD's crossing guards and recriuits can't have M4s?

Or did JPD just need some extra M4s to cover for those that might be lost or stolen out of parked cars in sketchy parking lots?

A Private First Class in the Military with less than 2 years of Service makes $2,837 a month Taxable. A housing allowance BAH Jackson Ms area with spouse or child $1818 non taxable and eating allowance BAS $476.35 = $5,131.35 a month. Thats $61,576.20 a year plus free medical dental and retirement after 20 years plus yearly raises and promotions. After 10 years with promotions over $100,000 in pay and benefits.

I support the police… but, this is money for nothing!!! JPD is a joke and everyone knows this. Capitol police is the only freak police force in the city. JPD are school crossing guards and traffic olive at best

Shameful Salary for a job that’s disrespected until you call for help!

Not a decent wage for a family!

During the day only 2 officers needed per precinct! After 10:00pm when the roaches come out you’ll need all 300 plus the crossing guards and the Chief!

So a recruit is making $50k while a sergeant with 30 years is making $59k?? That's messed up!

If you can't live on $50,000 that's a you problem.

I agree 100%.

I was a school crossing guard in the 8th grade. Didn't get paid.

MS LE pay is embarrassing. I retired as a LE supervisor in 1992 in another state and was making $75k/year, with medical/dental/vision funded plus a retirement contribution.

‘ If you can't live on $50,000 that's a you problem.’ Yeah, you’re so right. Maybe before Obaminationcare, before Bidenomics, and 20 years ago when you were single. What world do you live in? You can live comfortably on $50k/ year if you don’t have kids, you drive a one headlight squeaky brake junk car with the bumper held on with duct tape, if you live in a burned out hand me down single-wide trailer in the hood, don't travel out of your neighborhood, don’t care if your teeth rot out and skip the biannual dentist visits,.. geeze. Are you 80 years old and still think that gas is 5 cents a gallon along with a Krystal burger with cheese?

Paying by the pound…

@3:06 a single man can live on that no problem. Add some kids and a wife, you might as well be homeless

Y'all do know that $50000 isn't " take home" pay, don't you?
Then, look up the costs of homes and apartments within the city limits. The average rent is $950 to$1000 for a one bedroom apartment. The nicer apartments are $1320 to $1550. Not all of them will include utilities. Then there's cable if you want to watch TV.
Don't know about y'all, but I expect police eat food 3 times a day and groceries and even fast food haven't gone down. A human may get sick every now and again so how's their medical insurance and life insurance? Do they get free medical check ups or do they have to pay for that? Are meds covered...probably not fully! Do they have a family than needs a car and the expense that entails? Who pays for schools supplies if there's a kid in school or day care if both parents are working? Did you figure that in? lunch cost for the other family members? God help you if your kids play sports! Are you getting haircuts? Shave? Bathe daily? Have a washer and dryer? I guess no pet costs. GEEZ...get real . I got paid more than $20000 a year in my first job in 1969 and was comfortable but not living " high on the hog" ! Even then, car payments with gas and maintenance and rent and utilities and getting basic medical care took a big chunk!
I swear I think some of you commenting must just be loners and/or troublemakers with math issues! I do my budget and $5000 for two people is the least monthly outlay and we have zero house or car payments. Because even if like me now, you have retired and fully own your house and two cars, $20000 doesn't cover the year's basic costs. You may not be able to push a lawn mower or mop and wax forever! You'll need to employ others!

7:25 am is right! But, I wonder if he has much fun! Are you eating frozen meals? Are you a priest? Or just celibate by choice or necessity?

$50,000 a year would look good to most people on SS.

And that is how we run this state boys. . Deny, delay and eventually it doesn’t matter so it continues to snowball. From an unbiased, legal view without the character noise, this case exposed so much darkness. The people of hinds county are constantly being screwed by their own people. The election was so corrupt, the decision to invalidate was all the judge could do because it was so apparent. The tactics used to continue to drag this out does not eliminate the problem. It was not a difficult case. What really needs to happen is for the people to say no more. The governor is not going to save you. He is as bad as the hinds county DA office that has released career criminals and saturated your environment with this element. . The king in charge delays until it doesn’t matter any more. No action causes the same damage the wrong decision does. The problem still exists unattended. The simple truth outside the character noise is that this case could be the beginning of something new and unheard of here. You know where the leaders and election forces are held accountable and it forces transparency so that corruption cannot proliferate. When left unattended, corruption morphs and snowballs and you end up with the current results: capital of the state is a mess, prior leaders in prison or should be, crime out of control, state ranked low in all quality of living standards and medical care in this state is 5-10 years behind he national standards. I could go on and on but if YKYK. I see absolutely no difference between the political parties here. They all have the same color: murky, dark where greed is clothed in darkness.

1:03 - Public records are all over the internet. Check out openthebooks.com for lots of information. Even the checkbooks are public record. We have a right to know where our tax dollars are spent. Here's a link to Mississippi:

https://www.openthebooks.com/mississippi-state-employees/?Year_S=2024&Emp_S=Mississippi%2BOffice%2Bof%2Bthe%2BState%2BAuditor&pg=2