Following the annual media publication of 2019 city salaries, the Worcester Police Patrolman's Union, NEPBA Local 911, issued its annual press release explaining that some $12,000,000.00 of police compensation was not salary, but was in fact generated by officers working 244,000 extra hours above and beyond their shifts. Additionally, 2/3 of that money was paid by private industry. The union also explained that the City's administrative fee - earned off the backs of police detail work - alone was enough money for the city to employ about sixteen new teachers.

The Union also responded to local officials' calls for police reform using the extremely positive use of force data from Worcester, instead of the national data that does not remotely reflect what is happening locally.

Read the Press Release here