It's impossible to work 3000 hours of overtime in a year. This is fraud. If that person is actually working those hours, then it's incompetence by the Sergeant above them allowing them to work that many overtime hours for no reason.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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The money is in police detail work And a lot of them are able to do it during their normal shifts. The person probably did legitimately log that many hours or near that many hours, the problem is that they were able to do it in the first place.
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14.47 hour days to the maximum legal amount of days before days off. And working on holidays is time and a half or double time by default as well. Could be done. Not good, but not fraud.
The trick I read before is to arrest someone at the end of your shift, then you have to process them at overtime and possibly wait for a judge or something. They know the tricks to draw it out.
Of course why didn't I think of arresting someone just to get overtime? Probably because I'm not a fucking psychopath
Sorry to inform you but your application to the police academy has been denied
Depending on internals it doesn't even necessarily need to be an arrest, just something that requires a report. My local PD apparently needs an incident report done within 12 hours of said incident taking place, this could be as simple as checking on a weird noise and finding a cat.
The system is absolutely fucked. My mother, years ago, had just recently given birth to my youngest sister. She was pulled over with a suspended license. She didn't know she had unpaid parking tickets. The cop was gonna let her go until backup stopped by (why this cop needed backup for a car that had two small women and baby is suspect). One of the backup cops was vehement on arresting my mom, her newborn be damned. The first cop explained that they get a $250.00 bonus for any arrests made. He tried and tried to convince the second cop not to arrest but said cop did not care in the slightest about separating a newborn from our mom. My mother spent the night in jail because that second cop only saw dollar signs looking at her.
It's absolutely disgusting that they have financial incentive to put people through hell.
And saying that they get a $250 bonus in front of your mom is lowkey asking if she could make a better offer. My family is mixed race, and cops are absolutely corrupt as hell.
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Cops at my hospital are all in overtime. They bring in inmates for psych holds/psych eval and then supervise them hands-off for the entire hospital stay. Easy money. Then the really entitled ones try to act pushy and basically want us to give the patient shots for unjustified reasons. Just so they can sit and watch movies without being bothered.
They must already get a hazard pay designation by being there, or else they'd be looking for ways to create hazards. So it could be worse.
He surely did work 11,5hours everyday additionaly to his regular shift 🥴
The problem is not getting paid overtime for time spent working wtf. The problem is being the fucking worst??
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).
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
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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…
It's completely indicative of fraud.
They are almost certainly not actually working that much though. Look up the recent Massachusetts state police overtime scandal.
True heroes, these rich cops. Not like schoolteachers, who are suspicious villains and possibly freeloaders, am I right?
*sigh
Not incentivizing our teachers/academics/social workers but highly incentivizing cops is going to devastate our country's output soon.
De-educating the populace has been a plan for decades. This is nothing new.
Cops be living in the 60s:
- Has a low skill job
- Earns enough to buy a house and feed the famiky on a single income
- Easily get away with murder
- Twice as easy if it was a black person
- Easy access to drugs
Sounds corrupt but they're the police so...I guess not?
Law in the US ceased to exist on January 20, 2025. The rest of us are just going through the motions until the reality catches up. (So, while in the past, something might have happened, now, they will get medals.)
It seems the whole world is at a fork in the road...rule by law or rule by power.
Okay, fuck it, I'm getting out of this software engineering thing, I'm moving to the US to become a cop. I think I'm white enough for Trump, definitely whiter than he is.
I've eaten oranges whiter than he is
Here's a test for you:
There's a chunk of cash in an envelope. Do you take it?
A non white person could be close by at any moment, are you fearing for your life?
You're walking outside and you hear a dog bark in the distance. Are you shooting wildly in the basic direction of the sounds?
You've just killed an innocent person and been given a ~~paid holiday~~ whoops, I mean 'suspension', where would you like to go?
Hmm... If I find the envelope, yes. If someone is handing it to me as a bribe, no.
No
No
Hawaii maybe? Weather seems nice, same for the nature. Nice place to get your thoughts off murder.
Unfortunately you aren't corrupt enough to become a cop, sorry.
Oh no!
This would be very funny if it weren't true.
That "No Tax on Overtime" pitch makes perfect sense now.
Yes especially when Project 2025 also wants to reclassify what counts as overtime hours to make it unachievable for most.
We need to cap police OT. They are making off like bandits.
Best part is, they're either overreporting it, or they're legitimately dangerous to society from being so overworked in a job that already seems to put them on edge.
I have no quarrel with people being paid for their overtime (in fact, it would be shady for overtime to NOT be paid out), but I don't think 19 hours of overtime per week over the course of an entire year (or 20 if they take 2 weeks off a year) for police officers is OK. Tbh I don't think it's OK for anyone who doesn't earn dividends or bonuses based on company profits, but it's even less OK for police.
Nah they definitely take it all. Usually just parked out side a gated community taking a nap or "working" the sideline at a sporting event or any number of other bullshit like "helping" at the dui checkpoint in the middle of the night chilling in the big air conditioned trailer maybe also napping. My buddy is a statie in another state overtime is plentiful but not actual hard police work like overtime at your job is just more of your job. For police it's just paid hang out
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If I worked 5 hours overtime every week for a year, my entire combined income would be less than what these guys make in 2 months ):
For some reason my lemmy app glitched as I was scrolling and I was seeing this title above This post
No wonder that cop in Parks & Recreation moved to San Diego.
Since you can be 'too smart' to be a cop, can we get them to remove the america's finest from their cars and gear? Clearly that is no longer the case.
remove the america’s finest from their cars
They didnt say what they are the finest at. They seem to be the "finest" at getting paid.
Now do California Highway Patrol.
Paypigs
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