Buffalo has paid five cops more than $200,000 since they were put on leave in April pending an investigation into how they handled the narcotics chief’s hit-and-run. The total cost is likely much higher because the city has to pay others to cover the officers’ shifts.
Chief of Narcotics D.J. Granville. Courtesy of WKBW.
The City of Buffalo has paid more than $200,000 to the five police officers who responded to the Erie County narcotics chief’s hit-and-run accident on the city’s West Side last spring since they were put on leave in April.
The total cost to city taxpayers is considerably higher, however, because the city also has to pay officers to backfill the shifts those five cops are missing. And sometimes the city has to pay overtime for that, because the police union’s contract calls for mandatory overtime pay when the department has to call in officers to take the place of colleagues who are off work for more than 14 days…