Finally, An Adult in the Room: Ford CEO Responds to Employees' Demands to Stop Making Police Vehicles

PJ Media ^ | 07/09/2020 | Bryan Preston

[SeekAndFind]

Jalopnik reports that a group of Ford Motor Company employees want the auto giant to stop making vehicles for police.

Ford employees have asked the automaker to stop building police cars, according to a Jalopnik report published Wednesday. The request comes as countless Black Lives Matter protests continue throughout America and around the globe, sparked by the killing of George Floyd.

Jalopnik fails to report that since the protests devolved into riots and “defund the police” swept across the nation, violent crime and murder have surged in several major cities, including New York, Chicago, Baltimore, and Seattle.

The employee letter is typical of the anti-police hysteria of our moment:

“Throughout history, the vehicles that Ford employees design and build have been used as accessories to police brutality and oppression,” workers wrote in a letter to Ford CEO Jim Hackett and Chairman Bill Ford, according to Jalopnik. “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.”

All these demand notes sound the same. They have a similar ominous and accusatory voice and style. Serious question: Who is writing them? The mainstream media never turns over that particular rock.

[funfan]

” I do appreciate people speaking their mind to me on this issue – it helped me generate this note to explain why we are continuing our commitment to police forces all over the world in our trusted products. Thank you for caring so deeply about the Company and our people, and for all you do for Ford.””

I think his last paragraph is exactly that. I like it.

[GulfMan]

Ford should give all those cars to Chevrolet and lay off 2,000 workers, especially in the areas likely to support defunding

[COBOL2Java]

Maybe they'll want to import Chinese police cars! Electric ones at that!

[Alberta's Child]

"Motor vehicle crashes accounted for more than 36,000 fatalities in 2019 alone. For the sake of humanity, we should stop building cars." ... said nobody with an IQ over 70 -- ever.

[CommerceComet]

It’s hard to believe a CEO of a major corporation actually had to send out such a note.

He must have a really good golden parachute.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Maybe they’ll want to import Chinese police cars! Electric ones at that!

If you try the same S**T BLM or Antifa did in China, you’d all be mowed down by machine guns before you can finish saying “Black Lives Matter”...

[Kickass Conservative]

In the South we just say “Bless your Heart” when an Idiot says something stupid.

[farming pharmer]

With aircraft, missiles and other tech, that no longer applies. We would be done.

With everything we threw at the Taliban, they're still thumbing their noses at us.

I wouldn't worry.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: He must have a really good golden parachute.

These are usually negotiated prior to hiring, so yeah, he’s financially set for life.

[cgbg]

The jerk employees should be fired on the spot.

No reason need be given.

[Gene Eric]

Yup. An open letter to these Ford employees would be nice.

Dear Ford Employees who wish to cancel cops,

Go to Hell

- America

[zeugma]

A simple F U would of been better.

I disagree. I figure these cars are pretty high margin vehicles. Ford should simply ask which of the supporters of this action are willing to give up their jobs due to the reduced profit Ford would make.

[Getready]

Oh..no...it’s the hippies all over again...

[Deplorable American1776]

A nice way of tell those morons FU and ESAD...

[Zathras]

You would be surprised but its probably HR which is pushing this nonsense.
Many large corporations have had their HR dept taken over by SJW.
Intel and Microsoft for example.

[I want the USA back]

Fire them.

[Bommer]

Actually a simple, “then go work somewhere else, and when your daughter is being raped, your house being broken into or someone trying to kill you, you can thank Ford for making the best patrol car to save your worthless asses!” would have surfficed.

[Erik Latranyi]

With everything we threw at the Taliban, they're still thumbing their noses at us. I wouldn't worry.

Do you think the marxists would have the same rules of engagement for us as they did for the Taliban or ISIS?

Then you are a bigger fool than you realize.

[nhbob1]

I think a pink slip would be more appropriate.

[gogeo]

From the letter:

According to the letter Ford’s Black employees are seeking action by July 15. “We cannot claim to support the fight against systemic racism while supplying and supporting the very systems that perpetrate violence against Black Americans…We, the undersigned employees, call for Ford to cease development, production, and sale of all custom police vehicles and products. Our resources can and should be diverted to other forms of first response and public safety,” the group writes.

It would be interesting to ask, "What resources, and where would you divert them? Specifically? Is there an investment opportunity?" (Or was that just feel good word salad?)