Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, October 4, 2017.
Inspector general report: Chicago Police Department wasting money on overtime pay
The Chicago Police Department has been wasting millions of dollars on overtime pay for police officers, and the extra hours have caused burnout in the force, according to a new report from Chicago inspector general Joseph Ferguson. “CPD’s management of overtime speaks directly to how inefficient management can lead to wide scale waste and a culture of abuse,” Chicago inspector general Joseph Ferguson said in a statement. The audit also found that from 2014 to 2016 officers were allowed to approve their own overtime payments, and that over the same period $40 million in overtime was approved by “peers or subordinates of the member who earned the overtime.” [DNAinfo Chicago]
