{"id":176330,"date":"2020-07-11T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/11\/another-example-of-misaligned-incentives-in-policing\/"},"modified":"2020-07-11T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T00:21:00","slug":"another-example-of-misaligned-incentives-in-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/11\/another-example-of-misaligned-incentives-in-policing\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Example of Misaligned Incentives in Policing"},"content":{"rendered":"
The New York Police department is seeing a surge in retirement requests as a result of the George Floyd Black Lives Matter protests<\/a>, but this is not because the cops are feeling “under seige”, but because their pensions are dictated by their pay in their final year, and so the explosion in overtime leads to an explosion in the pensions.<\/div>\n

This is completely f%$#ed up.<\/p>\n

First, including overtime in determining a pension is just insane, and second, it creates an incentive for cops with one foot out the door to pack on the overtime.<\/p>\n

This means that you have senior officers on the job who are so fatigued that they are not thinking straight.<\/p>\n

This is incredibly bad policy:<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s Finest are putting in for retirement faster than the NYPD can handle \u2014 while citing a lack of respect and the loss of overtime pay, The Post has learned. <\/p>\n

A surge of city cops filing papers<\/a> during the past week more than quadrupled last year\u2019s number \u2014 as the city grapples with a surge of shootings \u2014 and the stampede caused a bottleneck that\u2019s forcing others to delay putting in their papers, officials and sources said. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Sources also said the flood of overtime tied to last month\u2019s protests \u2014 which will boost pension payouts for eligible retirees \u2014 and the expected loss of overtime due to the recent $1 billion cut to the NYPD\u2019s budget<\/a> were also factors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the best time to leave,\u201d one cop said. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve padded the numbers as high as you can pad them.\u201d <\/p>\n

Another cop noted, \u201cWhen they cut the OT, a lot of people were done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

A Brooklyn cop said the NYPD was facing a \u201cperfect storm,\u201d noting that \u201ccops made the most overtime they will for a long time \u2014 at least until next year\u201d and citing rumors that \u201cgrade promotions\u201d for detectives and \u201cspecial assignment money\u201d for sergeants and lieutenants will be canceled. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It being a New York Post<\/i> story, they bury the lede, that cops are trying to cash in on an extraordinary level of overtime that they have received recently, and they completely ignore the policy implications.<\/p>\n

Every time I look into police union contracts, I am horrified at what I see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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