The Seattle Police Department overpaid police officers, management, and civilian staff a total of more than $13 million as part of a police contract, signed in 2025, that gave officers retroactive pay increases for two years when they were operating under a previous, expired contract.
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People are quick to say it’s a “few bad apples,” hoping you’ll forget the rest of the phrase is “spoil the whole bunch”
That leaves SPOG, whose contract is silent on what happens if SPD inadvertently pays them too much. (Officers themselves have apparently kept silent, too, since the city budget office just found out some of them got checks in June that were higher than they were supposed to be by five-figure amounts).