Chicago Metra Police Department employees are raking in enormous amounts of overtime pay for their time and attendance, according to a recent report from The Chicago Sun-Times. For instance, John Geraty, the police sergeant, gained $90,273 in overtime last year. This was more than half of his total yearly income of $154,446.

On top of Geraty, the Sun-Times discovered that five other Metra cops were logging an average of 30 extra hours each week, with 11 more of them working 20 to 30 hours. Additionally, 10 officers earned more in overtime pay than their salaries were worth.

The issues resulting from the extra hours are now over-drawn city budgets and over-worked police officers, as reported by Chicagoist. Three years ago, the Metra said it would investigate its police department's excessive budget for overtime pay and see why so many extra hours were being clocked. It seems as though its research did not change much and cops are still working sporadic, extensive shifts.

"It's dysfunctional for both the officers and the public," Maria Haberfeld, a department chair at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, told Chicagoist. "You cannot achieve more effective policing with overworked police officers."

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