The Goodhue City Council held a meeting on Monday to discuss options for police coverage following the entire department's resignation.

The Goodhue Police Department resigned due to issues with the city’s pay, Mayor Ellen Anderson Buck said at a city council meeting Monday.

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
    144·
    11 months ago

    Police make hundreds of thousands of dollars with overtime in many places even low level officers.

    • spongebue@lemmy.world
      76·
      11 months ago

      Source? Is this really a common enough thing, or just an edge case? How much overtime is required? What about the $20-something/hour mentioned in the article?

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        This is a problem in Massachusetts, because we require officers for every road construction project, instead of flaggers, but I also thought this was an exception

        • steltek@lemm.ee
          4·
          11 months ago

          The real problem in Massachusetts is that the Staties were getting paid OT for traffic details when they were actually asleep in bed.