Hines Seeks Cap On Police Overtime; Hiring More Officers While Reducing Ot Is Solution, He Says

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Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines Jr. will seek to cap police overtime costs in the city's budget for 2008, he announced Tuesday.

"What I'd like to explore is how do we reverse overtime and fill the slots with officers," Hines said. "The catch, though, is while we do that, it's incumbent on the department to keep overtime down, still. We can't have a situation where we have more officers and more overtime."

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Hines Seeks Cap On Police Overtime; Hiring More Officers While Reducing Ot Is Solution, He Says

Hines' proposal came after a Journal Sentinel investigation published Sunday. The story reported that the Milwaukee Police Department spent $17.8 million in overtime in 2006, more than enough to fill every one of its 227 sworn o...

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