Westhampton Cop Wants To Make More Than Ray Kelly

The Westhampton Beach Police Chief is looking for a raise—and Newsday says that if he gets one, he "would make more than New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who oversees the largest police department in the country." Kelly earn $189,700; Westhampton Beach Police Chief Raymond Dean makes $149,624/year for his base, and he also gets extra pay which makes his total pay "$188,709.60. He is also entitled to compensatory time - days for extra work." Dean explained, "The guy who cleans my cesspool makes more money than me." Newsday points out there were only 43 serious crimes in Westhampton Beach, whereas there were 116,824 in NYC. Westhampton Village Mayor—and former Southampton police chief—Conrad Teller said, "Commissioner Kelly made the mistake of staying in New York. He made his choice." Well, maybe Dean wants to move to Clarkstown, NY—over there, the chief made $332,529.88, one captain made "$335,676 while working two days a week because of a disability and spending three days a week undergoing physical therapy" and the other captain made over $311,000, according to this NY Times article about high police pay.

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By Jen Chung in News on June 4, 2009 5:56 PM

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Jen S

WHB holler! That's my hometown, bitches! And I may have babysat for this guy back in the day!

dwarbi

You're all missing the obvious:

"Newsday points out there were only 43 serious crimes in Westhampton Beach, whereas there were 116,824 in NYC."

Clearly Raymond Dean is doing a MUCH better job. 2717% better.

Think2wice

If Westhampton Beach and Clarkstown taxpayers are okay with bankrolling their salaries then more power to them.

But this does illustrate how selfish and self-serving small-town and suburban municipal governments are. ALL of Suffolk County should be under one police commissioner, one fire chief, etc. How many police chiefs does it take to police Suffolk's 1.5 million people as opposed to NYC's 8.5 million.

valeriob

especially considering 500k of them are rich and 500k of them are illegal.

They'll be bankrolling this douchbag's salary until he dies.

Brooklyn

It's not a live and let live situation -- we're all going to have to pay for these douchebags' pensions, which, because they've been inflated by one-horse town corruption and patronage, is going to be an astronomical bill.

abcohen

1 - where do I sign up for 300k jobs

2 - how in the world is that allowed? (I mean about Ray Kelly)

longacre

Kelly manages 40,000 cops. This guy manages...wait for it...21 cops. They even list each cop on their web page.

http://www.westhamptonbeach.org/westhampton-beach-police-department.php

r1b2

Shocking and pathetic. That these towns ever let the pay go so high is irresponsible.

Mr Mel

If these guys really make that kind of money, the citizens of the towns should be screaming Bloody Murder. We're talking cops here.

jaycjay

"Commissioner Kelly made the mistake of staying in New York. He made his choice."

Similar argument: Raymond Dean made the mistake of becoming a police chief, instead of cleaning cesspools. He made his choice.