Drifting Left

Democrats help lower price of insulin? GOP votes 'hell no'.

Republicans go 'Big Government' and threaten free market with massive invasion of medical privacy? GOP says 'hell yes'.

Ohio Republicans will never accept their actions.

Insufficient time to properly relax from daily stress commonly leads to anxiety, irritability, and issues sleeping or eating. The more stress a job induces, the more pronounced the effects become. Issues with sleeping and eating overall decrease performance. It affects things like memory, quick thinking, aim, and just overall physical ability. Sleep deprivation in particular can induce hallucinations and paranoia. Basically, the last things you want for someone with a gun that the public relies on to quickly and accurately assess situations and then react to accordingly.

The original idea is that having to pay employees for overtime will give the employer incentive to reduce the amount of overtime required. However, regardless of it's effectiveness in other scenarios, it doesn't work in law enforcement because it's purpose is not profit. (Or it shouldn't be but that's a whole different can of worms). In addition, having to pay cops more ultimately only affects taxpayers. Taxpayers do not have direct control over how much cops work and so the idea falls flat. Cops are instead only encouraged to work overtime with their employers having very little reason to stop them.