Overtime for crime emergency is 60 percent spent

D.C. police have spent nearly 60 percent of the $8 million approved by the D.C. Council to pay for overtime costs the first month of the District’s crime emergency.

So far, police have used $4.7 million of the overtime money to put more police on the streets, police spokesman Kevin Morison said. He said he didn’t know how many extra hours the 3,800-member police force worked during the month.