“Two Punch” Rule: What The Internal Report Might Have Skipped
PowerTime’s design is painfully simple: one punch in, one punch out—done. No mid-shift edits, no retro-tweaks. Yet the LeRette investigation fixated on arrival times and ignored exits; end-of-shift data “were not recorded,” the report admits . That single omission twists the math. Picture a detective clocking in at 07:12, chasing informants till 17:45, but only the morning stamp counts—ten hours of work look like tardy slacking. Multiply that blind spot across 1,180 retro-punches and every spreadsheet alarm should scream.
Even Article 8 of the Local 27 contract says a day shift runs 07:00–15:00; one tap starts it, one tap ends it . Anything else needs supervisor sign-off, not a midnight keyboard heist. Ignoring the exit punch doesn’t just undercount hours; it weaponized “lateness” against a target employee while the rest of the roster time-travelled with impunity.
When half the SPD’s command staff edits yesterday’s clock like it’s Wikipedia, “to serve and protect” starts feeling more like “to swipe and collect.”
The Punch List
| Officer / Rank | After-the-fact punches |
|---|---|
| Det. Griff Coffman | 110 |
| Det. Russ Milroy | 50 |
| Det. Chris Woolery | 159 |
| Det. Sean Holmgren | 36 |
| Det. Taavi Mattson | 19 |
| Det. Kelsey “Probable Cause Barbie” Davis | 26 |
| Lt. Thor Trone | 105 |
| Lt. Michelle Pope | 129 |
| Capt. Jeff Harriman | 59 |
| Former Capt. Bill Lear | 212 |
| Former Asst. Chief John Kiel | 101 |
| Former Inv. Mikayla LeRette (plaintiff) | 174 |
| Former Capt. Tom Champaigne | Data “missing” |
How Many Days Could 1,180 Retro-Punches Hide?
PowerTime is built on a two-tap rhythm: Punch IN at the start of the shift, Punch OUT at the end.
So, in a perfect world:
| 2 punches | = | 1 full workday |
If a punch is missing (or added after the fact), that record no longer tells you a complete story about the day.
Using that simple math:
| Total retro-punches logged | ÷ | 2 punches per day | = | Potential days affected |
|—————————|———————–|—|—————————–|
| 1,180 | ÷ 2 | = | ≈ 590 workdays |
What 590 “phantom” days mean
- 1 ½ YEARS of shifts. At five 8-hour days per week, 590 shifts equal roughly 118 weeks—that’s more than a year of daily schedules with fuzzy timestamps.
- $41,300 taxpayer dollars. Using the same conservative $35/hour blended rate we quoted earlier, even a 30-minute error per shift burns $20,600; a one-hour error doubles the drain.
- Audit nightmare. Every edited day muddies overtime totals, sick-time calculations, and pension inputs. Multiply that fuzz across multiple officers, and the payroll ledger turns into a choose-your-own-adventure novel.
Until SPD leadership locks in the two-punch rule for everyone—captains and pregnant detectives alike—those 590 question-mark days will keep floating in the books, and the meter will keep running on the public’s dime.
Translation: Stop feeding overtime pastries to people already wearing gold badges.
Cost of Ignored Exits & Selective Enforcement
Why so many edits? LeRette’s rebuttal says flex schedules were standard for narcotics and detectives—until pregnancy and a lactation-room request “changed” the rules . Command staff kept retro-punching; she got an investigation plus a GPS tracker.
Now run the numbers. If each phantom tweak adds or shaves 30 minutes, taxpayers lose 590 labor hours—roughly two-thirds of a full-time position. At a conservative $35/hour, that’s $20,600 flushed into the time-sheet Twilight Zone. And the bill climbs every week SPD treats PowerTime like a suggestion box.
Bottom line: the software isn’t broken, the enforcement is.
Until leadership enforces the two-punch standard across every non-investigative badge—captains, lieutenants, and sargeants included—Superior’s clocks will keep spinning backward, and public dollars will keep disappearing into “retro-punch” space.
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