MINNEAPOLIS – The highest-paid Minneapolis police employee earned about a half-million dollars last year, with nearly half of that total from overtime pay.
The city’s Police Department posted a record amount of overtime in 2024: $28 million, or $12 million more than planned.
The department has routinely exceeded its overtime budget to make up staffing shortfalls after a flood of officers left following George Floyd’s murder by police and 2020 and the ensuing unrest…