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San Diego’s highest paid city employees? Cops racking up overtime and earning over $400,000

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San Diego’s highest paid city employees? Cops racking up overtime and earning over $400,000 - Lemmy.World

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May 22, 2025 at 12:23pmWeb
Show threadd_centMay 22, 2025
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.
Show threadLandedGentryMay 22, 2025
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.
Show threadandyburkeMay 22, 2025

3151 hrs of overtime.

78.775 full-time 40 hour weeks there.

So assuming 2 weeks of vacation, he somehow managed to work 128.775 weeks in a year?

128.775/50 - let's see how many work weeks he had to work each week to get there - 2.5755

So each week he had to be working about 2.6 normal weeks, or about 103 hours a week.

Assuming he worked 7 days each week, he was doing 14.7 hour shifts every day of those 50 weeks of working 7 days with no breaks.

Hmm.

Show threadLandedGentryMay 22, 2025

52 weeks in a year. If he worked all 52 full time it’s 4000hrs, which means we’re talking 40+ weeks which most people do work. So yes it’s within range. Remember you don’t have to be awake and working to be considered on duty. Overnight work is still paid work In a lot of industries

At the end of the day we’re both speculating here. The larger point is that unfortunately a lot of this is legal, which is the entire problem. They can get away with this shit without any recourse.

Show threadsomeguy3May 22, 2025

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.

Show threadcaptainlezbianMay 22, 2025
Of course why didn’t I think of arresting someone just to get overtime? Probably because I’m not a fucking psychopath
Show threadvaultdweller013May 22, 2025
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.
Show threadsome_guyMay 22, 2025
We need to cap police OT. They are making off like bandits.