Sentences with phrase «of police overtime»

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Two years later, it's hard to see Occupy as having achieved much of anything, other than a lot of overtime for police and a few weeks» fodder for the nightly news.

Puerto Rico has struggled with a wave of crime since thousands of police officers began calling in sick to protest millions of dollars owed in overtime pay following Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

With a focus on disrupting the city's economy, the protests have forced the city to pay more than $ 3 million in police overtime and have led to lost revenue after a couple of major concerts were canceled.

The City of Chicago is planning for more than 70,000 people to mob an election - night rally in Grant Park for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, an event that will involve police and firefighters working overtime, blocked streets and at least $ 2 million in extra costs.

The police earning huge overtime payments brutalised the miners and their families, arrests were made and the whole new operation of industrial struggles involving violence and destruction appeared on our screens.

As mayor of Rochester, Duffy (who is the city's former police chief) is putting his foot down when it comes to overtime for police and firefighters.

Democrats want to use $ 35 million in bond premiums — essentially money generated by borrowing more than needed at higher interest rates — and cutting police overtime by reopening two closed police precincts and reducing the use of outside counsel.

Both think police overtime is out of control and want to cut government waste.

He proposed eliminating all of the $ 13.5 million spent on police overtime to fund neighborhood initiatives.

With overtime and other extras, the village police force received an average annual salary of $ 141,384 before the arbitration award took effect, according to state pension records.

The other seven counts include fourth - degree criminal mischief for damaging an exterior door to the residence; second - degree criminal trespass for going inside the dwelling; fourth - degree criminal facilitation for not seizing more than one - eighth of an ounce of cocaine from the residence; official misconduct for not seizing the cocaine; official misconduct for proposing the drug unit file a false report to cover up its illegal entry; second - degree offering a false instrument for filing; and official misconduct for offering overtime to another police officer to coverup what happened.

Overtime for State Police and the state prison system surged 64 percent in June and July — an increase of more than $ 1 million a day — compared to the same period in 2014 because of a three - week manhunt for two escaped prisoners.

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night that the de Blasio administration will likely expand the size of the police force in exchange for capping overtime for officers.

Police overtime also was cut by $ 1.1 million, while firefighter overtime increased because of vacancies in the department.

We had a very good summer in this city due to the significant amount of overtime that allowed me to put thousands of additional police officers» in public housing and other high crime neighborhoods, Bratton said.

• Miner is seeking proposals for a private contractor to provide security at the airport instead of paying overtime to city police officers.

Expenses that went over budget included police and fire expenses, primarily overtime costs, to the tune of $ 5.2 million dollars.

«Pat Ryder's almost 35 years of Nassau County police experience will guarantee the exceptional level of safety that the public expects all while controlling police overtime costs,» Curran said in a statement Tuesday.

Former police chief Charles Flynn was paid a total of $ 304,324 with $ 190,463 in salary and another $ 43,113 in overtime in 2015, according to village records.

Syracuse, NY — Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick blasted «overtime excesses» and ineptitude by leaders of the Syracuse police department for allowing former Sgt. Thomas Connellan to get paid for working two jobs at the same time.

One day after Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled his support for a New York Police Department review of the department's practice of allowing officers on modified duty to boost their salaries with overtime pay, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn said the administration could not be trusted to conduct that review and asked the federal Department of Justice to intervene.

While Suffolk police overtime rose last year, sheriff and correction officer overtime decreased from 2013 to 2014 by $ 6.7 million, because of additional correction officer hiring and renovations of four dorms at the Yaphank jail, the budget review office said.

• Miner is seeking bids for a private contractor to provide security at the airport instead of paying overtime to city police officers.

Nassau Police Benevolent Association president James Carver said the pace of retirements — about 150 officers left the force last year and as many as 250 more are expected to put in their papers this year — makes it challenging to get ahead of the overtime curve.

Suffolk police officials said a reduction in the number of officers in recent years and an effort to proactively deploy resources based on crime patterns were driving the rise in overtime.

Suffolk police employees were paid for 639,858.38 hours of overtime in 2014, compared with 549,240.50 in 2013, data show.

Nassau police overtime costs are currently down 15 percent year - to - date in the first two months of 2015 compared to the same period in 2014, Krumpter said.

The data highlight the long - running struggle in Nassau and Suffolk to bring down police overtime, which accounts for about half of all overtime spending in each county.

To cover the nearly $ 18 million shortfall in budgeted overtime costs, Naughton said funds were moved from other parts of the police department budget where there was a surplus.

The mayor and police commissioner immediately apologized for the incident, but Frascatore was still able to earn the overtime, in addition to his base pay of $ 57,747, according to payroll records.

In the meantime, if you're concerned about the crime in your neighborhood, the lack of proper response time to your police calls, the $ 13 million spent on overtime or just the overall violence in Syracuse, please tell the mayoral candidates that you want them to fully staff the police department.

In June 2015, as part of negotiations for the Fiscal Year 2016 Adopted Budget, the de Blasio Administration and the City Council agreed to significant new police hiring and an overtime cap for the NYPD.9 At that time the cap was set at $ 513 million in fiscal year 2016 and $ 453 million in fiscal year 2017 and beyond.10 However, as one factor in determining the cost of uniformed overtime is the salary of employees, the City has increased the cap to reflect collective bargaining wage increases.

Citing a need to better deploy police and curb overtime costs, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is extending a policy that limits the number of permits allowed for neighborhood street fairs in 2018.

He received the bulk of his overtime managing the police garage, the vehicle fleet and Dome events.

She said she would also like to boost the number of police officers patrolling city streets to combat crime and also cut down on overtime costs.

All of Jackowski's overtime was earned legitimately under rules of union contracts, said First Deputy Police Chief David Barrette.

Officials are looking at whether work rules can be changed to cut overtime costs, whether higher - paid, veteran workers are receiving a disproportionate amount of overtime and whether it makes sense to hire more police officers rather than paying so much overtime.

Maragos found overtime is «heavily skewed toward a relatively small number of police force members who also tend to be the highest paid and eligible for retirement.»

The Nassau legislature's Office of Budget Review noted in a report that soaring police overtime in Nassau, which topped a record $ 70 million last year, can not be blamed on low staffing levels or union work rules, a fiscal adviser to the county legislature said.

The news that the police officer involved in Eric Garner's 2014 chokehold death had received tens of thousands in overtime pay while on modified duty has reopened wounds and left some asking whether Mayor Bill de Blasio has kept his campaign pledge to transform the police department.

Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda says the mayor has been willing to spend millions of dollars on overtime to get officers on the street, producing a continuing drop in crime.

The first - half figures, DiNapoli noted, do not include most of the $ 22 million in overtime earned by state police and corrections officers searching for escaped prisoners David Sweat and Richard Matt.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and relatives of two men killed by police called for NYC to end the practice of paying overtime to cops placed on desk duty while under investigation.

A de Blasio spokesman defended the mayor's record on policing in a 679 - word email that did not directly address the payment of overtime to officers accused of misconduct or the criticism over a lack of transparency.

Republicans said they would replace the fee revenue by restructuring county debt; boosting estimates of sales tax revenue; using unspent money from the 2017 budget and reducing police overtime projections.

After his department did an audit of the city police department, he said he realized that the force has too many vacancies and is using overtime to fill shifts.

Other agencies heavily reliant on overtime include Veterans» Homes, which spent 10.5 percent of agency pay on overtime, State Police, which spent 6 percent on overtime, and the Department of Transportation, which spent 5.7 percent of agency pay on overtime.

The council well knows they are only symbolically cutting funding from the overtime lines of police and fire.

BY BRIAN EDSALL When Brad Weidel became police chief of Ramapo in 2016 following Peter Brower's retirement, his employment agreement with the Town of Ramapo for 2016 - 2019 outlined that he «shall not be eligible for overtime pay» and was issued a base salary of $ 225,000.

Aside from the discovery of Brower's private security firm, many were upset with simply the large sum of overtime being paid to a police chief who already made over $ 200,000 a year — this in Rockland County where police officers are already among the highest paid in the state and across the nation.