You're missing the point. They demanded that the police be defunded. Cutting the funding cut a black woman's salary, now their pussies hurt over the obvious racism and sexism that caused her salary to be cut.

"Don't mansplain! YOU ARE PAYING LESS BECAUSE SHE HAS BREASTS REEEEEE!"

This is how government unions operate.

Bear with me here.

In a private sector union, the union leadership negotiates with managers, owners or their representatives, usually lawyers. The union employees usually argue for higher wages, either by increasing the wages of more experienced employees or providing more benefits to employees. Managers and owners traditionally argue against wage and benefits increases because it costs them more money and decreases the amount of money they can reinvest into the company or pay higher level executives, administrators, owners etc. Both sides are fighting over the same pool of money and both have an interest in increasing the pool of money by selling a product or service.

In a public sector union, the union leadership doesn't negotiate with managers and owners but rather, theoretically, with elected officials that represent the taxpayer. Teachers unions negotiate with school boards. Municipal law enforcement negotiates with the city council. Often, elected leaders such as school boards and city councils hand off this responsibility to administrators WITHIN the department. For instance, school boards put the superintendent and the school's human resource workers in charge of negotiations. City councils put the city administrator or the Chief of police in the role of negotiation with the union.

Do you notice a problem here? You should if you understand why unions exist. Unions exist to stop the management and owners from taking all the profits and not "sharing" the profits with the employees in terms of wage increase. They are fighting over the same pool of money. They both have an interest in keeping the business alive and well to get more money in the pool. This isn't true of an elected official and definitely not true of a city administrator or superintendent. In fact, the city administrator or superintendent has the EXACT OPPOSITE MOTIVE. They are not negotiating AGAINST the union but WITH the unions because if they can get the Union employees more money, the administrators (police chiefs, superintendents, school administrators, law enforcement that is considered management) can also increase the amount of money they get. The elected representatives don't want to tick off the administrators because they want a "nice" relationship - ever see how vicious things can get when a school board fights a superintendent or a mayor fights a police chief? It's not good for re-election thus elected representatives don't want the fight and so don't represent the taxpayers interests.

yet, the taxpayer is the provider of the pool of money both the government union employees and the government administrators are fighting over. So what government workers, whether union or management or administration do, is instead, fight for higher taxes. The more they can tax, the bigger the pool of money is. the bigger the pool of money is, the more they can take for themselves.

Every single time you vote to increase teacher's wages and benefits, remember the school district's staff, administrators and superintendents are going to ask for at least double the increase the teachers get. Every time you argue the average police officer needs more equipment, you are going to pay an administrator to become an "expert" on that equipment and also up the salary of any administrator that has anything to do with that equipment.

If you give a teacher a 3% raise for having two more years of experience (steps), also a 3% raise for getting more education in something like sensitive classrooms for LGBTQIA++ (ladders) and on top of that a raise because the cost of living goes up...about 3% as well and another 2% in more benefits because healthcare went up and another two days off for teacher training (which the vast vast majority of teachers never, ever attend. It's considered punishment for naughty teacher to have to go get trained.) you're up to a 20% raise per year for teachers. The administration fires back to the school board or to the city council if we're talking police departments, hey, you gave the low level employees underneath me a 10% raise, I should get a 12% raise, the city council or school board is powerless to say no. Thus the taxpayers get screwed.

Even during the housing bubble burst and Obama's "new normal 1% annual growth economy" when private sectors employees were losing jobs, taking pay cuts, losing benefits, cutting all the frills out, GOVERNMENT UNION EMPLOYEES STILL AVERAGED OVER 6% ANNUAL SALARY INCREASES!!!!!!! In fact, the only area in the entire country in which wages rose and the micro capital gains went up, was the suburbs around D.C. and Silicon Valley. Everywhere else in the country we were losing money, except for Government employees from the lowliest janitor to the Chief of Police to the City Planner with no experience.

Government unions also have full time union representation. Private sector unions are usually represented by a colleague that already works 40 hours a week and is expected to put in extra work to be a union rep. Government unions also have full time lawyers. Private sector unions have to go out and find legal representation.

Government unions collude with each other, administrators and elected representatives to steal as much in taxes as they possibly can for themselves. Every time there's a tax increase at the city, state or federal government, every union government worker, licks their lips and plots how they can take their bite out of the "new" money. That never happens in private sector unless a business is so poorly run it dooms itself. Everytime you think you're approving a tax for street maintenance, school facility improvements, the arts.....most of that money will be eaten by government unions demanding their piece.

TLDR: It is impossible that an administrator will ever be hired to replace an administrator at a lower salary ever. To do so, would cause the whole union house of cards to fall and all the way down the line to the janitor the union will scream that they're being overworked and underpaid. They're lying. They are overpaid and underworked and far, far less productive than the Americans who work in the private sector.

Apparently she was making as much/more than her predecessor before liberals cut her pay.

THE CIRCLE OF WOKE!

Except its ok to shoot and maim black officers.

Even when he was the shittiest president ever we still gave him a do over and he fucked that up too.

What happened to everyone making the same amount? 172k a year is a lot more than the average American makes. Shouldn't a police chief be paid the same amount as a garbage man? She should actually be paid much less.

Equity!