MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Minneapolis police seem likely to lose some earning power as the mayor and city council set about trimming the city budget.

Earning power punch

Squeezing OT:

A couple of ideas would limit what officers make when they’re outside their usual shifts.

Mayor Frey is proposing a $2 billion budget and about 22% of it will go to the police department.

But he says he can control costs a little bit by taking overtime pay for officers down from double their usual pay to time-and-a-half.

Part of his reasoning is that the department has had some recruiting success and Mayor Frey thinks they can fill all their shifts now.

He says using all that OT is potentially risky and dangerous.

"When anybody is tired, or they're hungry, or they are sick, and then they're forced t

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