Exhausted cops

Carpundit reacts to the Herald story on exhausted Boston cops - if they're being made to work overtime without enough rest, then take away their paid details, at least until the city can hire more officers:

... In my career, I've worked many a midnight shift with cops who were too tired to be out there. Often, it was because they'd worked the night before, worked a road job that day, and gone home for four hours of sleep before coming in for the midnight shift. Four days in a row. There's only so many hours in a week. Cut back the details, and you cut back the cops' time at work. Then, when the department has to hold some officers over, it's drawing from a pool that isn't already exhausted. ...