To the editor:
When a co-worker showed me the edition of The Salem News with the high-paying cops salaries in Salem, I bet him anything my sister, Sgt. Kathleen Makros, was in the top five. When he looked, he said I was right.
I just shook my head. If I was a taxpayer in Salem or the mayor, I would be outraged! People are suffering with bills and cops making salaries like that? Thank God I live in a town where the people were brave enough to stand up to the police and the town administrators and say no to more cops and overtime!
We're not supposed to question them because they are cops and we should be afraid of retaliation from them. I'm glad someone is finally exposing these overpaid salaries and I hope people and businesses overturn laws that make it a law these cops must be hired for these overpriced details.
It's for reasons like this I don't live in Massachusetts and specifically Salem anymore.
JEFF CRAVEN
Weare, N.H.
