It'd be interesting to get comment from the highway patrol about what the "other" category is. Looking at the individual officers per-year, "other" was around $4,000 in 2007 and 2008, but jumped to about $140,000 in 2009. Kind of makes me want to become a California Highway Patrolman.
You know a cynical person could suspect that the state wanted to claim that it was freezing or cutting public salaries - while paying the police a lot more!
