[walru]

If officers who put their life on the line in the most populated/congested city for 150k are overpaid, then I'd like to talk to some software developers in San Francisco.

[pessimizer]

Being a police officer is less dangerous than being a house painter, convenience store clerk, taxi driver, or any of a multitude of jobs in which you are not given a stick and a gun and encouraged to use them freely.

[paulie_a]

Being a cop in NYC is statistically not very dangerous. Sanitation workers also put their lives on the line. And have more deaths.

[will_brown]

Probably more dangerous than the software developers.

[zjaffee]

Yes, because there are thousands of people who'd happily take their job at 60k and are just as qualified to do so.

[gamblor956]

For what most programmers do, you're absolutely correct that their are plenty of people qualified to take their job for much less money.

[walru]

And live in NYC? That's poverty level.