@Frank Apisa,
Nassau County is the Western part of Long Island, and Suffolk County is the Eastern portion of Long Island.
[farmerman, Long Island City is part of New York City, it's a section of the borough of Queens]
And the median income of a Nassau County police officer--$150, 000 a year--exceeds the median income for residents in the wealthiest counties in the country.
It is definitely possible to get rich as a police officer, certainly in Nassau County.
I want to see police well compensated, but the sums on this list are truly mind-boggling.
Nassau County police officers' salaries
This chart lists salaries for all Nassau County police officers who made more than $150,000 in 2010, whether they were active or they retired last year. The total earnings column exceeds the sum of all the compensation categories because not all compensation is listed here; bonuses, for example, are not listed. Employees with a "Y" in the "County retirement" column took an early-retirement incentive; those with an "R" did not. (Source: Nassau County Comptroller's Office)
http://longisland.newsday.com/templates/simpleDB/?pid=173