how does the no OT work. Since they are Union they cant be forced to work without so the cop just doesn’t work?
There are probably some that depend on that OT money
There are a lot of OT duties. Cops do traffic ticket duty. Setting a one officer trap at an intersection. Double OT here. The actual duty and court appearances. That will end. Shifts will be manpower short or desk duty cops will be assigned to patrol to replace officers out sick , on vacay, in court rather than holding an officer over from his shift.
I don't know how they'd handle it in the NYPD, but in New York State Corrections, we worked plenty of time with zero overtime. They'd close down jobs and leave them empty for the shift, or they'd make officers double, or triple-up on the duty, and posts. Same thing with supervisors. Each prison had a plot plan created by Albany. It included the number of positions, and the number of staff you'd need to cover those jobs for three shifts. The prison I worked in the longest never got its full complement of officers, so we were always short. When there was overtime, it was either voluntary or mandatory. People could put their names on the overtime list for voluntary overtime, but if there wasn't anyone on the volunteer list, then people got stuck for an additional shift if someone had called in sick. The mandatory list was called the "Stick List", and the person at the top of that list ended up being stuck. Once you were stuck, your name went back down to the bottom of the list. You could be on your way up front to go home at 11 p.m., and be told you had to stay for another 8 hours, and down back again you'd go. You could not refuse. When I took the job, the first thing they told me was never answer the phone on your day off, because if they called you, and you picked up, you had report for mandatory overtime.