This is not a populist demand for reduced compensation. This is a demand for more accountable compensation that in effect allows investors to relate pay to performance.

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

The city is in effect free to respond to the demand of the citizenry to arrest in great numbers its least productive, most annoying citizens, and ignore whether those arrests lead to overcrowding, delays in booking or damage the credibility of the justice system as a whole,

I think he's not accountable,

It would be a symbolic contribution, not compensation.

You can't have these sort of prices without a substantial effect on demand.