that seems like an awfully sketchy premise to start off with. Is the Lopez character sending her child to very expensive private schools and the like? On a detective's salary?
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Sounds anti-hero and slightly Breaking Bad-ish to me. I'm on board to see what they bring to the table with this show.
shareNot really. You can read about this bad-cop shyt in almost any big city newspaper. Like Chicago and NYC. FBI has busted a lot of rogue cops.
She's a single mom, living in NYC -- high rent!
She's trying to get enough money so her daughter can go to Julliard to pursue her love of music. That's a pretty prestigious (read: expensive) school.
shareJulliard is only $38,000-$39,000 a year. Santos can afford the tuition on her Detective's salary. There's scholarships, as well.
It still doesn't make sense.
Jack's not dead! Jack would never die without telling me, first!
On average, a NYC detective makes 90K. Let's say for the purpose of round numbers, she makes 100K. After taxes, that's about 60K. Rent/mortgage would be anywhere from 20-30K a year, and after expenses to live/eat/clothe/transport herself and her kid, AND the expensive private HS tuition, she's probably in the hole now. Julliard would be out of reach.
But the funniest thing is you putting "only" in front of $38,000. You got it like that? Cool! Dinner's on you. . .
"Personally I hope they make all the gods black and change it from Valhalla to Valholla!"
Why snitch on your boss that's got you covered and cares for your child. I couldn't buy that she would flip so easily. I get the panic and not wanting to go to jail. It just seems that a cop into what they're into, with a relationship with Liotta and his wife like she had would do the time and trust them to take care of her daughter.
Don't buy that her smart daughter doesn't know she's dirty either.
The "clean" cops don't think it odd that she has a nice place in NYC AND sends her daughter to private school when there is no ex-husband or father in the picture?
As for her being a dirty cop I would imagine the temptation is very strong especially when you have a child who has dreams. I would like to think I would never do what she did but you just never know.
As for her turning on Liotta's character that's pretty damn low. He cares for her and her daughter like they were his own family: giving her $10k for tuition, fixing her car, etc. She should have told the FBI no and did her time (I understand cops are segregated from the general population). Yes she will be hard pressed to find another job but she made a bad choice, why drag other people into her mess to save your own a$$.
"Vulgarity is no substitute for wit".
But even if she decided not to turn and to do the time, her fellow cops would continue to be investigated and implicated in corruption. So they'd be dragged into it either way.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
If she refused to snitch on her fellow officers she could have at least warned them about the investigation.
"Vulgarity is no substitute for wit".
If she refused to snitch on her fellow officers she could have at least warned them about the investigation.
Yes, and been formally charged and very likely go to prison.
Jack's not dead! Jack would never die without telling me, first!
That was a given - but if she was going to prison she could have warned her fellow officers so they wouldn't have to.
"Vulgarity is no substitute for wit".
A NYC Detective makes about $95,000-$130,000 depending on their grade and rank. Private schools in NYC, like the one her daughter attends are likely, $30,000-$35,000. Though her daughter's education is a large portion of her salary, it still is very plausible to provide her with a private education, live in a respectable area and not have to scrimp for dollars and change, on a Detective's salary.
The premise is not only sketchy but it doesn't make a lot of sense unless Santos chooses to live WAY above her pay scale.
I do remember in an earlier episode, I believe it was the FBI that commented on Santos' location of her apartment, and the furnishings, etc were said to be "out of place" and seemingly out of her pay scale. I have no idea where Santos is supposed to live. So maybe Santos is commanding a more exorbitant life style, by choice.
Jack's not dead! Jack would never die without telling me, first!