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Why does Framingham utilize police officers as flagmen in street construction? Why pay a police officer $35 an hour to do what a flag man can do for $10 an hour?  Why utilize a police officer for such mundane duties when the police tell you they don't want to be bothered by mundane little things so that they can concentrate on the more important issues of crime and corruption.  I'll tell you why.  Construction work pays $35 an hour and is above and beyond their normal pay.  Most police officers would rather do nothing at $35 an hour than do what they were hired to do.  Recently I read an article about the Boston police union getting upset that the police officers were going to be sent back out onto the streets to control an uptick in crime.  If the police officers were to make their total annual pay public, it would be the highest in the town. Forty four (44) states use flagmen for construction sites rather than police. It's time to modernize and use common sense and stop allowing this governmental corruption. Here's an example of a Framingham police officer on construction detail. By the way, being a flagman substantially helps a police officer's salary.

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