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Public Advocate criticizes NYPD overtime spending and its implications
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Jumaane Williams highlights concerns about NYPD's significant overtime spending and its various negative impacts.
- Points out NYPD spent nearly $1.1 billion on overtime in fiscal year 2024
- Contrasts this with delayed payments to community-based violence interruption programs
- Acknowledges Commissioner Tisch's efforts to address excessive overtime
- Discusses how excessive overtime affects resource allocation, officer retention, and retirement incentives
Jumaane Williams
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The NYPD spent nearly $1,100,000,000 on overtime during the 2024 fiscal year, $141,000,000 more than the previous year.
0:40:49
I was just with the comptroller who presented a report about the community based violence interruption programs.
0:40:56
While the department has $1,100,000,000 just in overtime, they can't even get paid on time.
0:41:02
And I can't imagine what kind of services we'll be able to provide from the police department if they have to wait three, four, five, almost a year to get paid.
0:41:10
Police overtime has always been the subject of debate, but most but recent events including allegations, excuse me, that a former chief of department traded overtime paid for sexual acts have emphasized the need for reform.
0:41:23
I wanna say I am heartened to see NYPD commissioner Tisch taking steps to address excessive overtime and overtime abuse.
0:41:29
Excessive overtime does not only drain resources that could be used to invest in what we now what we know makes us safer, housing support, mental health services, employment opportunities, crisis intervention, credible messengers, and education, it also harms officer retention.
0:41:42
Officers have cited mandatory long hours as reasons they left their jobs, reporting that is left little time to see their spouses and start families, making tens of hundred or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime in a year also incentivizes retirement.
0:41:56
For officers who have reached their twentieth year of service, their pensions will be based on their twenty twenty four salaries inclusive of overtime.
0:42:03
Many officers will and have chosen to retire rather than the risk retiring with a smaller pension in a few years.
0:42:09
For an agency that struggles with recruitment and retention, it is MIPD's best interest to ensure the officers are not putting in excessive overtime.