Posted on 07/09/2020 6:41:17 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Ford Motor Company Employees have asked the company’s leadership to stop making and selling police vehicles.
According to Verge, the internal discussion came as the demands for racial justice raged across the country.
In response, Ford CEO Jim Hackett has told employees in a letter that he doesn’t think it’s “controversial that the Ford Police Interceptor helps officers do their job” and that Ford will continue the business.
Ford has the market when it comes to making police cars, accounting for two-thirds of the cop cars on the street.
Despite Ford’s success in the police car market, employees, including black workers who are part of Ford’s African Ancestry Network (FAAN) employee resource group have circulated a letter asking the company to “cease development, production, and sale of all custom police vehicles and products.”
This is one reason why employees inside Ford are now arguing that the company should sever its relationship with police. “We cannot claim to support the fight against systemic racism while supplying and supporting the very systems that perpetrate violence against Black Americans,” the group wrote, according to Jalopnik.
They continued:
Throughout our history, the vehicles that Ford employees design and build have been used as accessories to police brutality and oppression. We know that while many join, support, or supply law enforcement with good intentions, these racist policing practices that plague our society are historic and systemic — a history and system perpetuated by Ford for over 70 years — ever since Ford introduced the first-ever police package in 1950. As an undeniable part of that history and system, we are long overdue to “think and act differently” on our role in racism.
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Increasingly more administrators have been getting high, and they’re paranoid. They don’t want to get busted.
And this compliance by Ford Motor Company would serve - who?
Ford markets products based on the demand from customers. That is why Ford F-150’s are the major single marque being sold on the market today. If one looks closely, the sedans and coupes are disappearing, replaced by SUVs and light trucks almost completely. Not just at Ford, but almost every manufacturer is responding in a similar manner.
Even if Ford SHOULD cease production of purpose-built police interceptor vehicles, there are any number of after-market specialists that would convert the basic platform into something very similar to what Ford is now selling as the factory model.
When are the Anarchist going to fix this? 7th black child since the 4th. Youngest 3 yrs old.
The unions are eating their brains and turning them into demoncrat zombies.
Must be because POTUS Trump gave the Ford F-150 a shout out during his Speech at Mount Rushmore.
In Detroit? I'm guessing 30-40 percent. Or higher.
Get Woke, go Broke.
Where is the white American network.
So sick of blacks and their damn privileged racist groups.
Congressional Black Caucus. ... Spit. ...FU.
Ford has been woke for decades.
People like this don’t want jobs. They think they would be sitting home doing nothing with the same amount of money in their pockets except Whitey stole it all and forced them to go to work to get a little of it back.
What would be the problem with saying no?
They walk off the job?
They quit?
Either way problem solved.
Check out the new Dodge Ram. They are now #2 behind Ford.
The Chevy / GMC Trucks have Transmission Issues.
Isn’t this the ideal opportunity for an entrepreneur to set up shop using pissed off former NASCAR mechanics and engineers?
Sabotage?
Perhaps that’s been done. See post 8.
Did civilian Explorers have this problem???
Hmmm?
Okay…they’re, um…taxi cabs - yeah, that’s the ticket, taxi cabs.
Get back to work.
Does Secoreia Turner get a gold coffin from BLM? I just want to know or is that bad for their propaganda efforts?
More on how Ford may be sabotaging Cops Cars.
It looks like cops are STILL getting poisoned from the Explorers.
https://carbuzz.com/news/ford-explorer-interceptor-still-causing-problems
Growing up I remember hearing stories about union employees at Ford and GM who purposefully sabotaged cars on the assembly line. Those stories were probably true.
De-certify the union, then fire the employes because they are wasting corporate time and profits.
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