But While Suffolk County offers a starting salary of $38,498, LAPD detention officers begin at $64,038 a gap of more than $25,000 annually for comparable duties, according to city data.

In Suffolk, Chief of Police Robert Brown was the highest paid county employee — with $524,233 in termination pay and salary of $145,244, for a total of $702,922. Brown retired in July 2021 after ...

Suffolk police officers and brass dominated the list of top county earners in 2014, accounting for 284 of the 300 highest-paid active workers, according to the legislative budget office.