Audit blames lack of oversight for ‘excessive’ Baltimore police overtime pay

Baltimore Police Department supervisors have failed to monitor officers’ use of overtime, contributing to taxpayers fronting millions of dollars in “excessive” amounts of time-and-a-half pay in recent years, according to a state audit released Monday. Over an eight-year period, one officer made $1.1 million in overtime pay on top of the officer’s $824,000 salary, the audit reported.