The city, Desert Hot Springs,
population 27,000, is slowly edging toward bankruptcy, largely because
of police salaries and skyrocketing pension costs, but also because of
years of spending and unrealistic revenue estimates. It is mostly the
police, though, who have found themselves in the cross hairs recently.
“I would not venture to say they are overpaid,” said Robert Adams, the
acting city manager since August. “What I would say is that we can’t pay
them.”
Though few elected officials in America want to say it, police officers
and other public-safety workers keep turning up at the center of the
municipal bankruptcies and budget dramas plaguing many American cities —
largely because their pensions tend to be significantly more costly
than those of other city workers.
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