LMPD promotes 19 members

Butler is a perfect example, too. He had 28k OT, but his yearly is 63k, so he had to work a lot less OT to get to 28k than even the example above. Not so hard to figure up. The implications were unfair.

"Take an officer that works @ $23 an hour currently ok? (which is about 48k a year, so there are plenty of officers at a higher hourly rate). At 25k overtime yearly, making $23 an hr/34.50 OT rate, that's 724 hours of OT. There are 8760 hours in a whole year. 724 hours only equals out to about 12 days out of 365. A guy could get to 12 days/724 hours easily with all the OT out there to snatch up in certain units. They could work 20 hours of details/grants/other for 36 of 52 weeks and that would equal 724 hours which would equal 25k."

Make it simple. The $23 an hr officer ($34.50 OT rate) would have to average 13.94 hours per week for 52 weeks to make $25,000 in OT. That's a lot. The details are not going to make up a lot of that.

If you have someone working that much OT, then you are not managing your people well at all. You are either playing favorites and just one or two people get it, or everyone in your unit is over worked and they are all getting it.