Overtime payments a warning sign of lax oversight in Baltimore Police Department

The Baltimore Police Department has drawn so much scrutiny in recent years for poor policing practices, that one might assume the department had taken a firm hand with the most basic of chores — the management of time sheets. While preventing, responding to and solving crime is both difficult and often dangerous, setting an employee’s hours and making sure supervisors signed off is a piece of cake. Every organization, from the small mom-and-pop store to the most massive bureaucracy, faces this same chore.