To Protect And Sleep

In the Netherlands the Latin motto of the police is "Vigilat ut Quiescant". It means We watch,so you can sleep. So this is very funny to me.

They’re nodding off for sure

It’s Newark, nothing bad ever happens in Newark.

Terrible story time: I used to babysit for a woman who admitted that the reason she was no longer a cop, was because 90% of her days, she’d park her car, do some busywork, then fall asleep. She had the ability to sleep with her eyes open. It was like… a hereditary thing. Anyway, her reason for quitting the cop gig for a desk job? She realised after giving birth to her first kid, that if she was asleep in her car, sleeping in uniform, someone could come along and (removed) her. She realised this after a decade of being active and napping in her car. I’ve never forgotten that.

About a decade ago there was a minor scandal in my city where a guy videotaped his police officer neighbor coming home in his patrol car and sleeping all day. Turns out it was a regular practice for cops nearing retirement age to work 2x the number of hours each week so their retirement amount would be higher. But the department also would let them "work it" while at home sleeping. So they would get their normal salary for the first 40 hours. Then get the mandatory 8 hours of OT at 1.5x rate built into their contract. Then get paid 1.5x rate for 22 hours while home sleeping. Then get paid at 2.0x rate for the last 26 hours of being home sleeping. No one got fired no one got admonished. The police actually got a raise in exchange for not committing more fraud.