>> WTTW NEWS FINDS A SHARP INCREASE IN OVERTIME DESPITE PROMISES BY THE MAYOR TO GET IT UNDER CONTROL.

HEATHER JOINS US NOW WITH WHAT STHAOE AND JAROD -- WITH WHAT SHE AND JAROD FOUND.

HOW MUCH DID CITY EMPLOYEES EARN WORKING OVERTIME IN 2022.

>> IT IS AT LEAST $410 MILLION.

AND THAT REPRESENTS A 33% INCREASE OVER 2021.

NEARLY HALF OF THAT AMOUNT, $210.5 MILLION WENT TO MEMBERS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND THAT REPRESENTS A 56% INCREASE FROM 2022.

THE CITY SPENT MORE ON OVERTIME IN 2022 THAN IT DID IN 2020 WHICH OF COURSE IS DURING THE PANDEMIC AND THE CRIME SURGE THAT HAS YET TO RECEDE.

>> THERE WAS A TOFPB OVERTIME IN THAT ERA AND THERE IS MORE IN 2022.

WE SAW THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT CANCELING DAYS OFF AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

WHY WAS THERE SO MUCH OVERTIME?

>> YOU SNAIL -- NAILED IT ON THE HEAD.

THEY SAID POLICE WERE GOING TO GET A HANDLE ON THE CRIME SURGE SO MANY TIMES THEY HAD THEIR DAYS OFF CANCELED.

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL FOUND A THOUSAND OFFICERS WHO WORKED AT ONE POINT11 DAYS STRAIGHT AND THAT'S TO OVERTIME.

>> SHE SAID IN APRIL OF 2020 THE DEPARTMENT NEEDED TO STOP SPENDING LIKE A DRUNKEN SAILOR.

HOW DID THEY RESPOND TO WHAT YOU UNCOVERED?

>> NEITHER THE POLICE DEPARTMENT NOR THE MAYOR'S OFFICE RESPONDED TO OUR QUESTIONS.

THEY SAID THEY HAVEN'T FINISHED TABOO LAYINGSES -- TABULATIONS FOR 2022.

>> YOU ALSO REACHED OUT TO THE INSPECTOR GENERAL.

THAT OFFICE IN 2017 FOUND EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF OVERTIME ARE LINKED TO BURNOUT AND MISCONDUCT AND WHAT DID SHE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS MASSIVE AMOUNT?

>> IT IS A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM AND AN INDICATION THAT THE CITY IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS HAS LEARNED FROM CRISIS TO CRISIS.