In recent years, dozens of officers worked more than 1,000 hours of overtime annually. Experts say these levels of extra work can lead to accidents and poor decision making in use of force situations.
3000 hours OT would mean over 5000 hours worked or 14 hours every damn day of the year.
#doubt
Even if true, that’s terrible management from a budgetary view (they could hire a second person for less cost) and an operations view (stretching a “high stress” position very thin).
Gotta be something where their contract lets them game the system. Picking up extra time if someone calls out sick on a holiday night or something. Probably got a “cartel” going where officers group up to trade and manipulate schedules in order to maximize pay.
terrible management from a budgetary view? are you kidding? where are we supposed to spend all this money? feeding the poor? housing people? if we do that, where will the cops find the resources to arrest people for feeding the the poor and also shoot the homeless? they work so hard.
Sure whatever. That’s not what’s being discussed here though.
It would be cheaper for them to hire additional staff instead of paying for overtime.
What they would do with the saved money is another matter. They could have bought tanks to oppress the orphans or they could’ve bought magical Linux unicorns for the children of Gaza.
It doesn’t matter, the point is that paying that much for overtime is more expensive than hiring an additional cop or two.
3000 hours OT would mean over 5000 hours worked or 14 hours every damn day of the year.
#doubt
Even if true, that’s terrible management from a budgetary view (they could hire a second person for less cost) and an operations view (stretching a “high stress” position very thin).
Gotta be something where their contract lets them game the system. Picking up extra time if someone calls out sick on a holiday night or something. Probably got a “cartel” going where officers group up to trade and manipulate schedules in order to maximize pay.
It’s completely indicative of fraud.
terrible management from a budgetary view? are you kidding? where are we supposed to spend all this money? feeding the poor? housing people? if we do that, where will the cops find the resources to arrest people for feeding the the poor and also shoot the homeless? they work so hard.
You are joking but just hiring more cops would be cheaper
it’s not though. cops keep getting more budget than they can use, so instead they militarize and use their toys on innocent people during crackdowns
Sure whatever. That’s not what’s being discussed here though.
It would be cheaper for them to hire additional staff instead of paying for overtime. What they would do with the saved money is another matter. They could have bought tanks to oppress the orphans or they could’ve bought magical Linux unicorns for the children of Gaza.
It doesn’t matter, the point is that paying that much for overtime is more expensive than hiring an additional cop or two.