SF News SFPD Attributes Largest Group of Officer Transfers In Years to Its ‘Aggressive’ Recruiting Efforts The SFPD's controversial billboard recruiting campaign stunt last fall appears to have paid off, as the department says it welcomed 12 lateral transfers this year — its largest class in a decade and among the highest paid in the nation.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Department Once Again Going Overboard on Overtime, On Track to Go $19 Million Over Budget for Year While other City Hall departments are all forced to cut back in deficit times, the SF Sheriff’s Office is clocking another year of out-of-control overtime, in a familiar story of SF law enforcement's overtime overkill.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Hunter Pence to Lead Guinness World Record Attempt A round-up of last week's highlights: BART’s meltdown, SFPD overtime, and a flipped Lamborghini. Plus, the week ahead: SFJazz jam session; a conversation with Rebecca Solnit; and Hunter Pence leading a Guinness Record attempt.
SF News Scathing SFPD Audit Finds Rampant Abuse of Police Overtime Charges The SF Police Department is now spending $108 million a year on overtime pay alone, with wild and potentially fraudulent abuse of paid sick leave, officers approving their own overtime, and some taking paid time off to moonlight as security guards.
SF News SF Releases City Employees’ Salary Data, One SFPD Officer Made $465,000 In Overtime Alone Last Year SF city employees’ salary data for the 2023-24 fiscal year just became available, and Mayor Breed London Breed is nowhere near the top of the list. But the top of that list does have an SFPD officer who made $180,000 in salary pay, but $465,000 in overtime pay.
SF News Three Very Smart BART Janitors Made Over $100K Each In Overtime There is money to made in BART's garbage. The Mercury News reports that three BART janitors racked up over one hundred thousand dollars each in overtime pay. Liang Zhao Zhang made
SF News The SF Sheriff's Department's Overtime Issues, By The Numbers According to a civil grand jury report released Monday, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department is caught in a vicious cycle. It's spending a jaw-dropping amount of money compensating
SF News SF City Workers Rake In Fabulous Annual Salaries Forget Tweetooglebook. The real money can be found working for the city of San Francisco—specifically, the San Francisco Fire Department. Why? Overtime. According to Matier & Ross, "more than 700 San
