The NYPD has already blown its annual overtime budget by nearly $100 million this fiscal year, and is on track to spend more than double what it was allotted for extra work on the job, according to a new analysis by City Comptroller Brad Lander.
. “Police overtime remains by far the largest overtime category and the most likely to far outstrip its budget, yet there have not been serious efforts either to rein in this spending or to more honestly reflect expectations in the budget.”
Department leaders said they’ve had to rely more on OT in recent years due to reduced headcount: the agency has just over 34,000 uniformed officers on payroll, down about 2,700 officers since 2019, according to the Comptroller’s office.
Still, in Fiscal Year 2022 events remained the largest source of OT spending by the department, at $220 million out of $671 million in budget overruns, according to Lander. And not all of those are planned: more than $100 million was spent last year in OT for unplanned events, including $10.5 million for COVID-19 and $20 million for “anti-police protests.”
. That funding was covered by the state, but Sewell said that funding arrangement is “not sustainable in the long term.”The Fire Department saw a 65% bump in its OT budget between the July budget adoption and January financial plan,, but is projected to stay within its current $418 million allotment. The Sanitation Department is also expected to stay within its OT bounds, though its budget was increased slightly from $148 million to $169 million.
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