One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did
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he made bank, that's what he did
A lot of them do. Pretty common tactic is to save the paperwork from the day till the very end of the day, "whoa it's me I have all of this paperwork to do" and then just rake in the overtime.
This dude likely abused the system more but it's not like it's that odd.
He's having himself a giggle.
Reviewing collision reports... Hihihi
Holy fuck, why are they paying overtime to someone who can't record what he used half of it doing and managed to
workclock more overtime than regular time‽It's an inverse meritocracy
Doing the right thing is perfectly possible and perfectly easy until there's a financial incentive for it to not be possible or easy.
Donuts. He ate donuts while driving to the bank.