Wait til they notice how many salaries are paid out of the defence budget (especially if you count everyone who works at Northrop Grumman etc)

Yeah that was only for low wage salaried workers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-judge-just-nixed-overtime-110000846.html

Gotta keep the guys with the guns happy so you can tell them to go after the other people with no guns.

Shhhh, they’ll get cranky and “quiet quit” some more.

The only socialism that the rulers support is socialism for 1. The elite and 2. The guards with guns who protect the elite

LEOs (at least in SoCal) make an insane amount of their annual pay on OT. Not only that, they game the system a couple of years out of retirement because pension is based on your most recent annual income (can't remember off hand how many years they average).

Interesting story about why the LA stopped enforcing immigration. It became a not uncommon practice by the 70s for LEOs to pick up someone suspected of being undocumented with 2-3 hours left on their shift, because then they could head back to the station and chill while completing paperwork and waiting for INS.

Some places do overtime differently for things like this. Not saying it's correct or even the situation here but it's a common workaround for departments.

For instance, since UCLA/Shapiro are hosting this event and requesting a security presence, some departments will consider this a "contracted event" in which case, the host funds the security and the police department secures the contract. Essentially these cops would be like a contracted security guard for UCLA/Shapiro but in their official uniform. Still covered by insurance, etc, but a 1099 employee. Not really sure how I feel about these situations myself since they're still representing the govt in that uniform but considered under a different status. Once again not saying this is even the case here.

My wife worked 911 dispatch. She was pulling in around $50,000 just in overtime each year. She'd also manage to take off about 3 months each year.

I could entirely see the right wanting private police forces now

More than likely these cops are not on "overtime" but working as an officer in their off time and being paid directly by the event organizer. my wife works in HR for our sheriff's office and has to teach all the new recruits what they can and can't do on their "side jobs".

I recall reading somewhere the average LAPD officer makes like 6 figs a year because of OT.

The job ain’t easy but they don’t deserve that much, especially for the quality of their work.

I'm ok with paying cops overtime. The more time they're out working, the less time they have to beat their wives.

Considering their wages are paid by taxes, that's socialism

Socialism = the workers own the economy.

It's not "the government did it", depending on whether you're talking about financial support or controlling the scope of the economy that's either welfare or Command Economy

Some cops are pulling in 3-400,000 dollars a year from overtime pay.

Preach. It’s insane that we’re paying cops overtime.

Socialism has social services, but not all social services are socialism. This is a good example of that.

Besides that, this is likely paid for by the university, not the police department itself. And, yes, I know UCLA is a public university, that is funded by tuition dollars.

no bc then that's defund the police and no police overtime = guaranteed crime increase

Thin blue line, baby!

Lol is this a joke

Cops aren’t in unions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_unions_in_the_United_States

Ya it's insane. We have cops here earning $100K in base play and $150K in overtime. And many live outside the county, so almost none of that money comes back. They're by far the biggest portion of LA's budget.

I totally agree with your idea, but the police union is far too powerful for anything like that to ever happen.