WSP has good troopers and a good reputation their problem is they don't pay as well as municipal cops.
While paying a livable wage is of course critical, studies in education have shown that it ain't money that motivates good teachers. Hardly surprising when you consider how few go into teaching for the money. What motivates good teachers is an innate sense of satisfaction from a job well done, and tbe freedom in the classroom to do that job.
I expect you could draw parallels with good Cops.
Birdwatcher
That's why you start, but not why you stay. I could take half as many cops, pay them twice as much, do an infinitely better job and still save the public 50% by reduced equipment and benefit costs. But government doesn't work that way.
