While other City Hall departments are all forced to cut back in deficit times, the SF Sheriff’s Office is clocking another year of out-of-control overtime, in a familiar story of SF law enforcement’s overtime overkill.
It has been a years-long constant of modern-day San Francisco that SFPD officers and SF Sheriff’s Office deputies pull in rather obscene amounts of overtime pay. Plenty of audits have found abuse of the overtime system, but several consecutive mayors and SF Boards of Supervisors just keep on approving that cop overtime, making police and sheriff’s deputies consistently among SF’s highest-paid public employees.
And surprise, the SF Sheriff’s Office has done it again. Mission Local reports that the Sheriff’s Office has already blown its overtime budget for the current fiscal year, even though we are just two-thirds of the way through the current fiscal year. So at current place, the SF Sheriff’s Office is set to go $19 million over their OT budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year…