One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did

he made bank, that’s what he did

Lieutenant Timothy Dolan, a 26-year veteran who leads the traffic unit and serves as vice president of the OPOA police union, was paid $493,247 in overtime in 2024. Combined with his salary and other pay, this netted him a $711,000 paycheck, making him OPD’s highest-paid employee — a title he’s held for several years now. His pay was almost double that of the chief of police and nearly three times the mayor’s paycheck. His total compensation, including pension and healthcare benefits, was $879,000.

Dolan spent over 800 hours of overtime in 2024 reviewing collision reports — the equivalent of about five months of work in a normal full-time job. This was particularly expensive for the city because Dolan, due to his rank, is near the top of OPD’s salary scale. Spreading out the work among other officers during normal shift times could have been cheaper.

He’s having himself a giggle.

Holy fuck, why are they paying overtime to someone who can’t record what he used half of it doing and managed to work clock more overtime than regular time‽

Donuts. He ate donuts while driving to the bank.