Soaring overtime costs won’t affect how much D.C. taxpayers will pay once the officers retire, according to D.C. documents and government sources.

Pensions for police are based on the last years of salary, not on the total amount they earned each year, according to the District of Columbia Police Officers’ Retirement plan.

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