chargeorge t1_jd0lil3 wrote on March 20, 2023 at 11:31 PM

Legit, we have some of the highest police spending per capita in the country, and we have lots of efficiency since officers don’t need to spend a ton of time driving around, and we have relatively low crime. I don’t understand why we have such high overtime needs. My instinct is it’s officers prepping retirement but other comments indicate officers don’t like it either. We need something like the transit cost project for cops.

Brgvnti t1_jd2x39c wrote on March 21, 2023 at 1:36 PM

I’m on the job and don’t like overtime. Sometimes it’s nice and most of the time it sucks. The overtime money is nice, but I value my time off and rather spend my time with my wife, family, friends etc. then doing overtime. Nobody on this job likes to get voluntold to do overtime when we have families and life outside of work. I believe the majority of this overtime is from transit overtime they make us do.