Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006 | How about some investigative journalism regarding the cost of that study, “Police Pay Falls Well Below Norm, Study Says.” I would say at least an annual police officers salary or two. We need to bite the bullet and start paying our police. It will make great headlines, 17 percent average pay increase for SDPD. We always seem to find money for salary studies, city reelection parties and millions for accounting firms that tell us we are broke.