In many cities, there are two tiers of workers. Some have caps on their salary, and are not allowed to make more despite how many overtime hours they work; overtime given as compensatory time that they take off elsewhere in the year. But others like cops and firemen don't have caps on their salary, and are paid cash for the overtime; they milk it for all it's worth. Scandalous, yes, and the rules should be changed to put caps on cops and firemen salaries but their unions will block any attempts at capping their salary. Result is bankrupting cities.
add to that the Rochester practice of funneling all OT hours to soon to retire PD/FD, as pension is based on the last 4 years of earning
CALI FIREMAN POCKETS ANNUAL MILLION DOLLAR PENSION A Los Angeles fireman retired in his 50s with a pension of over 1 million dollars per year with lifetime medical benefits.
Job Title: Assistant Chief---Retired 2010---Years service 32
Rec'd from L/A Fire and Police Employees’ Pension Fund 2015: $1,164,022.65 annual
Lifetime Health Benefits $17,286.69 annual (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Cue then the cop writing a sad story because the city is bankrupt and he wont be getting as big a pension....
These people never see themselves as part of the problem.
In the small city where I live a police Sargeants base pay is around $76K and base cop pay is $48K, the city managers is $115K, and department heads and Chiefs is $105K. The the highest paid 8 employees were all 6 Sargeants and 2 corporals, then the manager, followed by 5 more cops then the department heads and chiefs.
Cops love that OT and will do anything to get it.