VRI Gutted?
Supposedly cut down to twenty-four officers on a nightly basis? Seems they're very serious about cutting OT, even for a couple months. They did this a year or two ago. The body count was amazing.
Once the warm weather hits and the wilding crowds head downtown (along with a few extra dead people weekends), they'll be reinstating OT or cancelling everyone's days off.
Once the warm weather hits and the wilding crowds head downtown (along with a few extra dead people weekends), they'll be reinstating OT or cancelling everyone's days off.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
117 Comments:
Oh Noooo! I just drove out of the dealer with a new Benz
A Sergeant here, got my 2 days. Even if you drop the Lake Shore Drive posts the 3 on Michigan Ave are 34 coppers not 24. Anyone can run the roster in clear it’s not hard to confirm this one.
It's true...VRI is out for march..I'm 20 plus and got 2 days...my partner with 24 yrs for zero..he's probably in a heavy seniority DOG.
Crime on every level is off the charts! Chicago is in a death spiral as many other cities that died. I don’t expect nothing to change. Only things getting uglier ;(
Can’t cancel my day off, everyday in paradise is a day off.
Lol, who cares ! I don’t work that pimp VRI anyways!
Trying to punish the guys who work and rely on the money!
I’m not mad at those guys, they are my brothers. F those
jags (white shirts) who cut the guys who need it .
We all know how much of an effect more PO's during VRI has on the body count though... They should open up more district level OT! But im gonna miss that vri money
Good Luck this Summer!
What purpose is it serving? The body count is higher than a giraffe’s a__
When the bodies start piling up (even more than they already have), everything old will be new again. HeyJackass has 25 for the month and 61 for the year, so far. Wait until a little spring fever hits with warmer March temps.
VRI is a joke... Anyway, when is the city giving part 2 of the Sergeants exam? And is it still going to be oral after the CFD debacle?!
Hey guys... try going back the schedule that was in place back in the 90s
If they kept the criminals in jail VRI would b at 0. But they don’t. It ain’t going nowhere.
Good. It's a waste of money.
More importantly everyone will be slaping their fins at an opportunity to work VRI.
Chicago. The result of 60 years of democratic rule.
there's not point to VRI downtown. The Youth know we can't do shit to them. Cut ALL VRI as far as I'm concerned. We can get back to it once the city, and State's attorneys office correct the problem they caused.
I'm both happy and sad. More days off is a very good thing that we all need and that makes me happy, more days off with the wife and kids make me sad.
I would bet on days off being canceled, wait to you see the Cta security plan with the new security company that has just been hired to help out with everything watched a political connections here! It just shows the total incompetence at the top. They were looking at hiring retired coppers back as security which would’ve been a great idea but then again with the way the Democrats detest coppers and people that actually care about people it’s not surprised that It is not happening! Yet!
Did it still keep people off of the medical?
The 200 million dollar + overtime question is...... Do more officers sitting at a location equate to less shooting victims?
I’d say probably not, but it does make for good optics and political talking points.
It has to be that way. That's how Lightfoot "floods the zone" after the bodies start stacking.
Don’t care.
Stopped working it in 2017 during the run up to the Van Dyke trial.
Risk/benefit analysis tells me it’s a loser to expose yourself to Chicagoans anymore then you have to.
Having worked vri as a supervisor numerous times can you really blame the city for scaling it back. It was hard enough getting people to just be on post let alone getting them to do activity. At least be visible.
Oh no! Who else is gonna be out there to tie up the zone to pull event numbers for their lunch or to dump on-view paper jobs onto the already backlogged watch?!
Do people assigned to Mass Transit work VRI?
Ahhhhh VRI...
Love watching those guys that live outside their means, scramble for activity. It’s a joke!! Department should have a “don’t live outside your means” seminar. I remember back in school we learned to balance a checkbook. It’s simple. Credit cards aren’t your friends boys and girls.
Lots of Jeep payments aren't going to be get paid now
It will be back. Mayor BugEyes is just taking an overtime breather.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
While I never needed it. I’m sure gonna miss that extra $ for doing nothing.
VRI was created to bolster the morale and commitment of police --it allows for OT without any actual work.
If we actually had bosses with brains- manpower would be assigned appropriately (starting with putting full duty on the street and out of the offices/admin support spots)and deployed accordingly (maybe more likely with "new" Area Chief roles--except they filled those spots with current fools).
They had better not start canceling my RDO,s on weekends this summer. There was plenty of time to think ahead, and hire some more people, and take people out of the ivory tower, and call back, and put them to work in the districts. If things stay the course, by July 4th the body count in this hamlet will be ridiculous. What a ship of fools this city has become...
Ode to the city..."Poor Prior Planning on your Part, Does not Constitute an Emergency to Me..."
Start canceling my days off again, and I'll retire. I guess I just need a reason.
No worries, the city will burn this summer, Kim Foxx will be reelected and there will be no felony charges approved on people of color. Every retail store will suffer. Wait until they start pushing carts full of stuff out your doors. Move out now, take the chance of getting caught.
How am i gonna pay for my boat now⛵
2nd part of Sgt test is getting pushed back to May
Hit me up if you need a side job!! I pay $25 cash
I will say that the Michigan Avenue detail is a joke. In my time doing it, you got lazy ones sitting in the van all night long and not even doing there job. When you are getting paid time and a half to simple walk around, eat good.. no excuse for that.
I agree at times it is a waste of time due to coppers being coppers and always expecting a free handout because its there day off. If your getting paid ot, due your job
A lot less Jeep Wranglers are gonna be customized.
Hey didn’t they just hit those high end stores on Michigan Ave a weekend or two ago..... and they want to decease the manpower!!!!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
A Sergeant here, got my 2 days. Even if you drop the Lake Shore Drive posts the 3 on Michigan Ave are 34 coppers not 24. Anyone can run the roster in clear it’s not hard to confirm this one.
2/19/2020 12:17:00 AM
Apparently you must be merit, as you obviously didn’t check the clear roster and see that there are in fact 24 PO’s assigned. White shirt clown
Total waste of money the city needs for more free shit. You loose they win again.
Don’t mistake overtime initiatives as wages and benefits - contractually speaking.
LightLoafer is playing games.
Lari LightLoafer is no different than Rahm when it comes to the police budget and manpower with their knee jerk micromanaging and meddling for politics purposes. These two half pint twits are not even close to knowing what they’re doing financially.
They’re dependent on merit hack pencil pushers comes up with these ideas (for another higher up self serving dolt) to deliver the cost savings proposals which the narrow minded dopey LightLoafer agrees to. VRI is probably going to be re-tooled into straight time Cops & Dots Unit.
All that nonsense money spent on hunch labs, predictive analytics, SSL conjuring, shot spotters haven’t done anything but enriched some vendors and assorted merit crystal ball swami pool. Bunch of data based junk pushed through rather than spending on hiring and overtime to holdback the rampaging protected feral lawless. How’s Hiring going?
No overtime or initiatives means no crime.
To think excessive overtime cannot be linked to excessive affordable bonds and court leniency by Cook County shows how LightLoafer isn’t interested in reducing crime, just the statistical appearance.
Show up and VRI when you can.
Pad the Def Comp.
Get some SS quarters in too.
And send in your FOP Ballot !
I’m gonna predict a new VRI program that puts officers on the trains....
71 days til Wilding Season officially starts on the Mag Mile.
It’ll be back.
The little Tom boy from Massillon, Ohio is shitting in her zoot suit right now.
It’s a lot different when you have ultimate responsibility for dealing with the savagery of Chicagoans, instead of just Monday morning quarterbacking the racist, sexist, misogynist, islamophobic, transphobic, cops.
Well, every other kick to the nuts this City has given us hasn't spurred you guys into action yet. Maybe this will be the straw?
The Police would run this City if we stood as one.
But we know that won't happen. Hiring practices, favoritism, and nepotism have permanently shattered whatever cohesion this Dept once enjoyed. And that was intentional.
It is possible that the city will be relying on the teams that will be detailed to Area 3. It's not like A/3 is going to actually need 12 gang enforcement amd saturation teams. The teams being detailed there from the former Area North will just supplement VRI and work all the details.
Spend more time with your family. Learn to live within your normal paycheck.
How bout that sellout Holt being in a commercial for Kim Foxx. Makes me want to puke. We know where he stands. Feel sorry for anyone working directly under him.
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/525710216-cbs-reporter-savini-named-in-cpd-harassment-report
Dui Dave
Worked any and all overtime initiatives that came my way for the last 28 years of a 32 year career and left the job with 6000 hours on the books. Not bragging just used the system for my benefit and no I don’t drive a fancy car, have a boat or own a summer home just paid for my three kids’ College education. Don’t rag on those who work special for whatever reason they’re just taking advantage of the opportunities available to them just like the clouted who use merit promotions to fatten their wallets. Get what you can while you can and try not to live beyond your means. No one cares about you on this job certainly not the merit promoted bosses who will be laughing all the way to the bank in the end.
Why would you be happy that VRI is over? I get it...you do not work it... what of people that do...some work it for nice toys, but a lot work it for tuition, home improvements or to make a better life for their families...I made over 100,000 from VRI in last 10 yrs...over half went to.special schooling for my special needs son....why do coppers have to always wish bad things on each other.
Too bad. I will be retired by than
019 hasn't cut any overtime. The overtime couple and the front office are still getting all the OT they want. Why is Kane still the XO there? That's the real question.
City keeps crying about overtime!!!!!
Here is the reason. CKS is retiring in March and they need to put/hide that command spot for another hack. Budgeted spot already accounted for somewhere else upon her departure.
A bit off topic here, but nicely related to current events relating to bail reform's failure in Chicago.
https://reason.com/2020/02/19/bail-reform-in-chicago-appears-to-have-increased-crime/#comments
Yes, the body count in downtown hotels and department vans is going to go way up without VRI.
A program that should have been cut years ago. Sad but true.
Whoever made decisions in their lives that were dependant on vri, good luck.
Can’t wait to see the bulletin boards with all the Harleys & jet skis for sale
The cb queen will come to the rescue! I worked with her and she knows it all just ask her.
My 5 parkers, 5 movers, 5 anovs, pooff!!!gone!!!I'm sure it'll be missed.
After her emotionally unbalanced quivering about Blogs release yesterday --today Ms LoriL is on about collecting taxes from online beverage sales and drivers encroaching into bike lanes....WTF give this gal some stabilization medication so she can get her head outta her ass and figure out whats important to the wellbeing of the city and the citizens.
At least I'll get the satisfaction of giving them zeros. City cuts OT I cut activity. Simple as that.
it is about time money was being stolen with no benefits.
Jajaja I heard of cb queen I’ve seen those photos! She a hard charger lol
Will the last VRI mannequin please call for a paper car before you turn out the light?
Love watching those guys that live outside their means, scramble for activity. It’s a joke!! Department should have a “don’t live outside your means.
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Listen simpleton.
Many off us are Maxed out in Deferred Comp.
Lazy Dip-shits like you who are too lazy to pick up easy money will be crying when the demo-crats destroy the pension in a few years.
Lots of coppers are freaking out now, trying to figure out how to make up for all that money they were depending on when they chose to live beyond their means. I never understood why coppers did that. One thing is to work VRI and any other OT to get ahead of a mortgage or paying down debt, but why get in over your head on anything and rely on VRI or OT to pay it.
Lots of Jeep payments aren't going to be get paid now
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True words! Why do these newbies all buy jeeps and get
Dem tatts yet cannot afford a drank. Status quo nada to see here. My pants too tight boss
Apparently you must be merit, as you obviously didn’t check the clear roster and see that there are in fact 24 PO’s assigned. White shirt clown
2/19/2020 10:25:00 AM
Take it easy there chumlee. Don’t be upset because you weren’t smart enough to make Sgt and you can’t pay your bills now. There is always a part-time at Chuckee Cheese for you.
Apparently you must be merit, as you obviously didn’t check the clear roster and see that there are in fact 24 PO’s assigned. White shirt clown
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There may only be 24 assigned, but he's correct. The 41 and 42 team in 018 total 20. The 47 team in 001 has 14. That's how he came up with 34 for Michigan Avenue
Anonymous said...
My 5 parkers, 5 movers, 5 anovs, pooff!!!gone!!!I'm sure it'll be missed.
2/19/2020 03:01:00 PM
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Very viscous cycle the city encourages— office has to bring activity to be eligible, if that goal of overtime is not available, them no activity is generated; hence the city’s alleged money problem becomes worsened. I retired back 14’... I enjoy the logic of this death roll
Maybe they can hide that goof Jill Stevens as the VRI CMDR
Anonymous Anonymous said...
A lot less Jeep Wranglers are gonna be customized.
Quit picking on the Jeep. I like mine
The only thing VRI accomplished is getting P.O.'s that do nothing at their own district to produce frivolous activity to be eligible to get VRI to do nothing for time and a half. Exception being the few house mice that did activity at VRI so they could do it again the following month.
Vri zones not analyzed often enough...
Helps not hiring more officers which hurts pension and promotions
THEY WANT YOU to work Cta for straight time. Don’t do it!!! Our days off are worth more.
Is it too early to guess on the years body count? I’m taking 573
How bout that sellout Holt being in a commercial for Kim Foxx. Makes me want to puke. We know where he stands. Feel sorry for anyone working directly under him.
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Ron Holt is gone!
OT. Force Review unit has begun swiping compliance audits for districts as a pilot program for area south. Lowest 25 percent in compliance subject to progressive discipline. UNREAL
"...I made over 100,000 from VRI in last 10 yrs...over half went to.special schooling for my special needs son....why do coppers have to always wish bad things on each other."
Because most of those guys bashing it are jealous, miserable fucks. I've seen too many that just wish ill will on others. I never worked VRI and don't intend to (this city and CPD gets TOO MUCH of my life already) but I get why guys do it and best wishes for all coppers.
People who rag that people working VRI, Special Employment etc are just pissed because they can’t get it. Wait your friggin turn. Not everyone working it lives outside their means or has a shitload of toys or a second house. I’ve worked almost all of the assignments at one time or another. I have none of the things you whiners describe as “outside my means.” I’m not a whore about it, I get what I need to supplement and save extra so I can get the Hell off this job ASAP. Some of us don’t have a second income to rely on when shit breaks down & needs to get fixed. I work with a lot of people who seem to live quite modestly. Almost never do I work special & eat out let alone a fancy meal. Rarely have I seen someone working special driving a fancy car. Some have spouses who are disabled or kids with special needs or are just working their asses off to pay for kid’s tuition etc. So stop your whining. We work it when it’s there because we know it might not be there later.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2020
ILLINOIS POLITICIANS MOVE TO REQUIRE $1M OF INSURANCE FOR FOID CARD
{395E8140-10ED-4C70-81B9-2673676BF467}Illinois Democrat State Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (photo right) has introduced HB-5170 , which "Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that an applicant for a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card or for renewal of that Card must submit to the Illinois State Police that he or she has proof of liability insurance coverage of at least $1,000,000 for accidental injuries caused by a firearm. Provides that the Illinois State Police may require annual proof of the person’s liability insurance coverage and may suspend a person’s Firearm Owner’s Identification Card for failure to maintain that coverage or for failure to provide the Illinois State Police with proof of that coverage. Provides that the proof of liability insurance coverage required under these provisions is required for both an initial application for a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card and for renewal of that Card."
As noted by Edgar County Watchdogs, "If passed this legislation would create a financial burden on anyone that simply wants a FOID card, let alone those wanting a gun or to keep their guns. This is a clear attempt to trample people’s Constitutional Rights to bear arms, both State (State Bill of Rights – Section 22) and Federal (US Constitution – 2nd Amendment).
7:50 A.M. useless SGT. First of all stop being a hypocrite. Plus you get SGT pay. If you were a P.O. you wouldn't open your cocky mouth. Go back to logging somebody at their lunch location small SGT.
Ok sup of VRI your not getting it either also I wrote the picking their ass comment still holds true. Show the Groot she’s wrong again. I’m sure the shitheads will figure it out soon. Piss on the bean snatch a celly kick a car steal everything lots of restaurants on Mich south and tourists not good Mayor
As long as I can wear jeans to work I don’t care about anything else
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/525710216-cbs-reporter-savini-named-in-cpd-harassment-report
What a scumbag. He wanted to send dick pics. Probably friends with Anthony Wiener.
Damn. And I just got my activity for the month.
Hey dumbasses, some of us worked vri so we could put more into deferred comp, pay tuitions, pay down debt, or whatever. Quite being bitter pricks.
RH
What does force review have to do with swiping
What ever happened to the lawsuit downstate to eliminate the FOID based on it being unconstitutional? Illinois is the only state that has it?
Anonymous said...
After her emotionally unbalanced quivering about Blogs release yesterday --today Ms LoriL is on about collecting taxes from online beverage sales and drivers encroaching into bike lanes....WTF give this gal some stabilization medication so she can get her head outta her ass and figure out whats important to the wellbeing of the city and the citizens.
2/19/2020 03:14:00 PM
***Oh here we go again with the "Beverage Tax" bullshit....I guess Prickwinkle is giving Groot some Tips.
Good it is a total waste of the city’s money. What good has it done? Absolutely nothing! Save the arguments or prove me wrong.
Get rid of it as far as I’m concerned. Many of the officers who successfully bid for VRI have 25+ on the job. They are assigned to administrative duties or desk duties. They beg to be on working officer’s paper. They are not AIRA trained. They haven’t completed an arrest report since paper reports. They have no idea what an ANOV is. You should see them scrambling around. Trust me the youth know the difference. They turn their heads to everything. Snatch and grabs and mob actions are still on the rise in the downtown area.
Since it’s inception after NATO; VRI, CHA, CTA and any other OT offered at the district level has been a blessing. I’ve paid off student loans, car, knocked a huge chunk off my mortgage, created an emergency fund and most importantly, maxed out deferred compensation. If it wasn’t for being able to capitalize on all that extra $, I’d probably be in the same financial boat I was before. I never expected it to last this long... now if you went out and added debt and didn’t pay cash for things, then you’re an idiot.
I'd care more about VRI if you could check the time box. Money is great and all but time with my family is worth much more. Plus, wouldn't being able to check the time box benefit the city, as it'd be less they have to pay out in the short term. Why pay off today what you can let build into an insurmountable debt later? Isn't that the city of Chicago's motto?
It’s federally funded $$$$
They are just saving it for the warmer months.
71 commanders need that loot.
Anonymous said...
What does force review have to do with swiping
2/20/2020 12:28:00 AM
I was thinking the same thing. Either it’s just made up or the unit doesn’t have enough videos to play Monday morning quarterback.
Yea, VRI is really reducing crime. My ass it is. Assign VRI on CTA subway stations. Let's reduce crime on the CTA.
Remember vri is not city money it’s federally
The Sgt with the BS comment about finding it hard to (log coppers) doing your job. Number one reason why people aren’t doing there jobs. Piss poor leadership that gets worse everyday. Sgt ‘s and Lt have handcuffs. Sgt’s are well capable of writing a report or a citation. This place is lost. Become a white shirt and tell people how to do police work? How about being a true leader by doing police work. Oh wait it’s the CPD I just became a boss without actually having to learn / earn my way. Joker you’re not above anyone.
"Illinois Democrat State Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowit"
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS
A FUCKING DEMOCRAT suggesting new laws, restrictions, fees, violations of the constitution. When is America finally going to have enough and start making them pay. I would PAY to see someone literally throw tar and feathers on this piece of shit (among others) like they used to do.
"Don’t be upset because you weren’t smart enough to make Sgt and you can’t pay your bills now."
That's rich. Like "Smarts" has anything to do with being a sgt. I'd actually say you're smarter for NOT even taking a test or wanting the position. The extra money and perks are surely not worth the monetary risk of being sued/fired for supervising many of the enthusiastic, yet inexperienced, 2 year otj officers who will get you jammed up. So...Oh intelligent, almighty, mid-level MANAGER... I posit that in fact YOU are not the "smart" one staking so much of your future on the actions and behaviour of So many under you. Every "Request for supervisor" potentially embroiling you into a shitshow that will cost you. I understand though, you did what "they" said you were "supposed" to do by taking the test and getting the spot, but please don't confuse position with intelligence. Signed - Someone who appreciating all the negatives that come from supervisory responsibilities chose not to take any promotional exams and instead groomed outside sources of income that make sgts pay/perks look minor.
OT. Force Review unit has begun swiping compliance audits for districts as a pilot program for area south. Lowest 25 percent in compliance subject to progressive discipline. UNREAL
2/19/2020 08:22:00 PM
Another retarded rumor. Why would force review run audits on swiping? It makes no fucking sense. Integrity unit, IAD, Chief of Patrol? Those would make entirely more sense.
This rumor makes as much sense as A/C Dep Chief Tirado demanding activity out of Mass Transit. The unit isn't even in his command how is he gonna put a activity quota on a unit that falls under another Dep Chief?
FOID is unconstitutional. Its another revenue political hack. Let's tax more from good law abiding citizens.
Illinois and Chicago are billions of dollars in debt,and the most corrupt state and city in the United States.
I wanna,have a beard, wear jeans and wear my baseball cap backward!
This rumor makes as much sense as A/C Dep Chief Tirado demanding activity out of Mass Transit.
The unit isn't even in his command how is he gonna put a activity quota on a unit that falls under another Dep Chief?
2/20/2020 11:22:00 AM
LMFAO !! Another over-promoted PO
Sad fckn days @ CPD
Remember vri is not city money it’s federally
2/20/2020 09:55:00 AM
That's TRU, we're paid for VRI in U.S. currency.
Remember vri is not city money it’s federally
2/20/2020 09:55:00
True, and it should be used in other ways.
I bet the main people complaining are the same lazy asses that never get out of the van, always talking about blinders and generally are worthless.
RE:
Love watching those guys that live outside their means, scramble for activity. It’s a joke!! Department should have a “don’t live outside your means.
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Listen simpleton.
Many off us are Maxed out in Deferred Comp.
Lazy Dip-shits like you who are too lazy to pick up easy money will be crying when the demo-crats destroy the pension in a few years.
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Hahahaha!! Sounds like a lil snowflake needs a quiet room to cure his emotional stress.
We know whose checkbook isn’t balanced...wait...they don’t know what that is.
I, as well as a shit ton of others I know on this job, are maxed out in deferred comp, send our kids to private school, have clothes on our back and hearty food on the table. We simply accept our check on the 1st and 16th and get our court dates in. We even check the CU option for holidays to accrue that time for retirement as that too will increase as our salary (hopefully) gets increased. You see, if I’m given an amount of $X dollars, I can’t go over that. I’ve already established my pre tax deductions and what I’m taking home. That “easy” money isn’t so “easy” when you’ve taken time away from your family you will never get back. The only one crying when the “demo-rats” do anything will be you sir or ma’am, because you have not learned to adapt. I really hope you’re not also “waiting” on a retro check in return for other important bargaining items to be left on the table. God bless you!! Hopefully you take a step back and get your shit together.
OT. Force Review unit has begun swiping compliance audits for districts as a pilot program for area south. Lowest 25 percent in compliance subject to progressive discipline. UNREAL
2/19/2020 08:22:00 PM
Messed up that the people who show up hours late to work and leave early will be handing out discipline...
F### VRI....Listen too many of us not even making it to 75 years old!......Take that trip to the homeland, Ireland, germany, italy, africa.....take a girl/boy on a date, visit a museum, take the family trip to hawaii, stare at your children, spend less, start an at home business/get tax write offs, use your brain, drink with your co-workers, go to the gym/spa enjoy your life....they cancel your days off make em' pay! And finally quit HATING ON OTHER COPPERS!!!
New VRI to be on the CTA
I, as well as a shit ton of others I know on this job, are maxed out in deferred comp, send our kids to private school, have clothes on our back and hearty food on the table. We simply accept our check on the 1st and 16th and get our court dates in.
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25 plus year sergeants make over $90 @ hour at FLSA PREMIUM O.T.
Huhhhh.. yeah.. I'll take it.
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