You really interested in cutting waste of money...Cut your police off from the pensions they have. Few teachers retire when they are supposed to. The love of teaching keeps them in the school usually right up until death or health issues force them to retire. WHen they do retire teachers often do not live long afterwards to collect. Your scumbag cops however collect pensions often twice or more of their final salary as they have learned to play the game of doing overtime majorly the last two years of their service so they can retire with monstrous pensions. They also have a system where after 20 or 25 years they can retire, so effectively a person working for the police can start at 18 and retire at around 40 and collect a pension from then UNTIL THEY DIE!!!!. Let us not forget the fact that they also receive unbelievable benefits which they don't contribute to (that's left to the tax payers) that include everything from the best of health insurance, pensions, life insurance, loans, college funds, guarantees of police positions for their kids, lets not even go there with the abuse of DISABILITY amongst cops and firemen Which is out of control, collection of Social Security when they turn 65 (yes the greedy bastards make an issue of getting SS as well even though they are collecting this ridiculous pension) etc etc etc. Add to this the cost to cities for police cars, guns, bullets, lawyers, gasoline, maintenance, police stations, electricity, retirement parties, gifts, fire trucks, yadda yadda yadda and remember ALL OF THIS IS PAID FOR BY THE TAX PAYER...and unlike the teachers who produce children who go on to be doctors, lawyers, scientists, teachers, professors, engineers etc etc etc...what does the police produce?...not much of anything.
