What Is It Like To Be A Berkeley Police Officer?

Living and working in Berkeley means experiencing life and following your passions. Becoming a police officer means celebrating all that makes you, you. Get to know us and see what we love to do when we’re off the clock.
Do you have a strong desire to build positive relationships in a diverse community? Are you, or someone you know, interested in a rewarding and challenging career in law enforcement? Apply today!
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[@mforgetteable]

Great work! - we hope to see twice as many of you community guardians!

[@misfitgarageutah]

I bet it is amazing to be a Berkeley PD officer! Average officer making over a QUARTER MILLION a year. Yes that is right the average pay of a cop in 2022 for berkeley was 296,180$!!!! WHY??? Highest paid police officer was paid 480k$???? HOW????? He is not even the captain or anything. He is just a regular officer. This is blowing my mind... No wonder California is so financially messed up. You are paying 30 MILLION $ to just your regular cops. For one city.... Probably 40-50 million a year when you include all the actual high paid captains and lieutenants and all that. I mean good cops should be paid well but that is CRAZY!!! 150-200k a year is plenty to pay a regular patrol officer... Not 480k...
The average Berkeley police officer salary was $296,180, which is 45 percent higher than the average salary for this job in California, and 207 percent higher then the average salary for this job nationwide. Police Officer salary in Berkeley is usually between $272,694 and $337,714 (25th and 75th). The highest police officer salary in Berkeley was $480,912. There are 108 employees in Berkeley whose job title is police officer.

[@bigdaddy8477]

Don’t forget taking hard workers money

[@aidanboring6667]

And protecting you no matter how much you hate them

[@Sin_Essence]

@@aidanboring6667 Just like how they protected the children in Uvalde

[@Sin_Essence]

@Ricardo Espinoza Sure, but how different do you think the departments really are? Since at least 1989, the Supreme Court has consistently upheld the precedent that police have no duty to protect you with the exception that you're currently under their custody. Their main job is to enforce the law. If anything, the only thing the police have been found to consistently protect is the status quo.