Often without the fat overtime pay or swank benefits that public employees make.
And I would bet that the only reason why Detroit cops work 12 hour shifts is because it is too expensive to hire new officers and give them all the benefits packages that the police union has negotiated.
Fun fact: Detroit has no tax base and cannot afford to pay police officers the same exorbitant salaries that morons in the suburbs agree to pay to their bloated police departments.
—In case the ivory tower clowns at “coachisright” hadn’t noticed, most Americans are working 12 hour shifts or more to make ends meet.—
Maybe it’s just me*, but I have not met anyone doing that for over 30 years. A friend who works at a bourbon barrel making plant did put in some 10 hour shifts for a few weeks, but he saw it as a financial boon.
*lived in Seattle area for 45 years and have been in Kentucky now for a little over a year.