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

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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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?

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        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

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