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.
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.
TBF, I know people that don’t “cartel the system,” but do find ways to do OT on holiday and leave to get something like 5x hours, but that still is only 50-100 extra hours…not 3000…
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.
TBF, I know people that don’t “cartel the system,” but do find ways to do OT on holiday and leave to get something like 5x hours, but that still is only 50-100 extra hours…not 3000…