Posted on 11/21/2011 1:07:21 PM PST by Skeez
Sixteen Detroit police officers failed to finish their scheduled shifts on Friday. The unannounced work-stoppage was an apparent protest against the Detroit mayor's planned reductions in pay for police, one part of a larger package intended to address the city's financial crisis.
The apparent protest was a "concerted effort isolated to one shift at one district," Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. explained in a statement. The police officers left during their 4-8 pm shift on Friday, according to the Detroit News.
Earlier in the week, Mayor Dave Bing warned police officers to expect a 10 percent pay cut in a speech outlining a series of budget control measures. "I do not want to cut boots on the street but we need police and fire to accept the same 10 percent cut in salary that the rest of our city employees have accepted," Bing told city residents on Wednesday. "Adding that savings to the cuts instituted across all city departments will save a total of $13 million dollars this fiscal year."
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Others would like to be paid for that work too, and are willing to accept less if the current occupants of those positions won't.
there is a reason it is the LOST city of Detroit.
in 20 years detroit will be a ghost town.
I thought it was a 6000 SUX? That was the only scene that vividly stood out in my mind when I watched that movie and I laughed out loud..........
All I know is I wouldn’t be a cop in Detroit for lots more than that.
You could pay me twice that to just move there and I wouldn’t do it.
Society creates the need for cops and society can eliminate the need if they really want to.
We eliminated my town’s little police force a few years ago and now we have a county cop roll through about once a week. In my opinion, even that is unnecessary since we’re pretty much crime free.
little crime in my private community other than maybe white collar stuff.
Course outsiders can always see stuff and want to take it.
Which sets up a downward spiral of wages. If I’m making $10 an hour, you fire me and hire someone for $7, what’s to stop you from firing them and hire someone for $6? Where is the floor for wages? I mean... I don’t like cops in the least. But why should we continually accept doing the same work for less and less money?
“Which sets up a downward spiral of wages. If I’m making $10 an hour, you fire me and hire someone for $7, what’s to stop you from firing them and hire someone for $6? Where is the floor for wages? I mean... I don’t like cops in the least. But why should we continually accept doing the same work for less and less money?”
The floor is the point where nobody of any quality is willing to take the job. As an employer, you expect a certain quality of an applicant, if there is nobody of the quality you expect willing to work for the pay you are offering, then you offer more.
Because the mention of cutting the wages or laying off the most important employees in a community (firefighters included) when budget cuts are required, is designed to promote the most outrage from the citizens who would normally support such cuts and defer attention from the city govt. employees in all other non public safety departments who should be considered useless overhead and the real targets of those cuts......
Schools and police academies all over the nation are producing qualified graduates. Surely the City of Detroit can find sixteen of them.
I trust your comment didn't mean that you approve of apparent insubordination among sworn law enforcement officers.
Supply and demand. When people stop doing the job for less money, you stop offering less. Example is the recent thread where some employer was lamenting the inability to hire people to do long cold boring work (shelling crabs) for minimum wage: well, if people won't do it for that price, it's worth more than that.
You’re right, it was a 6000 SUX (8.2 mpg)
(hangs head and sulks away.,..)
You were partially correct, the previous year's model was the 2000...... :)
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