We appreciate the police, but let it be 

I see the police union wants to challenge the voters (who ultimately pay their salary) in reference to their decision to eliminate an arbitrator in future wage issues (“SLO police union hopes to get binding arbitration vote overturned,” Nov. 17).

The voters realized that the arbitrator feeling a 30 percent-plus wage increase was due the police department was a little over the top, as other workers were taking pay cuts or getting laid off.

We appreciate what the police department does, but I feel you are paid very well and should let it be—and be thankful you are not working in L.A., where the pay is less and the job hazards a lot higher.

-- Richard Mullikin - Atascadero