Cops at the police department I was talking about make around $100K+ with overtime. This is a pretty popular around many departments. Salaries are $60k but cops get a lot of overtime.
I don't think 100k is such a magic number anymore that you couldn't find takers for "Make more, without needing the overtime, but get fired more easily if you fuck up". Break things up so you do simple shit that doesn't need to carry a gun for today's pay, have big responsibility but also big rewards if you do the hard shit.
Look how few people in this discussion are saying "oh man that's so much money for that job, I'm gonna quit my job and become a cop." Want top-tier people? Then you have to compete with other top-tier opportunities.
But unfortunately that would really only be easy if you were starting brand new thing from scratch. Much harder with entrenched interests anyway.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Cops already cover for each other's illegalities today when the worst punishment they seem to be getting is paid leave. How much more would they do when a job is on the line?
You have to have the money but you also have to have the ability to be top-tier. If everything is set up so that you're doomed to fail, you'll only have failures bothering to apply.
In the past this type of thing has usually been solved by creating a new police force under a different name, specific to some aspect that needs work. No idea if it would really help now.
I'd argue that the salaries would be well-deserved if the police were in general better at their jobs, or at least weren't obviously abusive and corrupt in pretty much every jurisdiction.
It isn't a problem that can be solved with money.