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> […] even when department staffing increased, overtime continued to go up. From 2011 to 2024, staffing increased by nearly 9%. Over the same period, overtime w
by monkpit 29d ago
> […] even when department staffing increased, overtime continued to go up. From 2011 to 2024, staffing increased by nearly 9%. Over the same period, overtime went up by almost 200%.
The data in this article is good, but this piece is really weak. They should have just left this blurb out.
- xp84 29d agoCare to elaborate?
- monkpit 29d agoIt implies that these two should be directly related without acknowledging any other contributing factors. It’s implying “overtime is a function of staffing, staffing went up so overtime should go down”. What if the population went up? What if there’s more work for 1 person to do for whatever reason, like some new process? What if crime rates changed? What if traffic beats were more demanding due to new roads or whatever? The rest of the data in the article is more damning and directly correlated to the point they’re trying to make. This specific data point just raises more questions than answers and feels like they’re trying to dogpile instead of being journalists, and it would have made their case stronger if they left it out, imo.