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Police say passerby may have saved life of LMPD officer attacked by homeless man

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RE: Police say passerby may have saved life of LMPD officer attacked...

August 25th, 2017 @ 1:48PM (7 years ago)

They can't make anyone work 6 days in a row to avoid overtime. The math works like this: 6 x 8 = 48. That's 8 hours of overtime in a calendar week.

There is no free lunch. There is no easy way out. The department has X number of runs, requiring Y number of officers being on duty. Their options are:

1. Assign dozens of excess Sgts and Lts to patrol officer and detective jobs not really requiring a supervisor.

2. Hire more officers

3. Continue paying out obscene amounts of overtime pay

4. Ask the criminals nicely to quit committing crimes, perhaps with some tears wept on TV by one of the ice cream Majors