No wonder they’re understaffed. Payout to Union retirees is probably higher than current payroll! Paying people for 30 years of their life for not working is unsustainable.
IOW the SHTF is now happening. The kicked can just hit a brick wall! Now pay up you urbanites!
Often without the fat overtime pay or swank benefits that public employees make.
And I would bet that the only reason why Detroit cops work 12 hour shifts is because it is too expensive to hire new officers and give them all the benefits packages that the police union has negotiated.
Fun fact: Detroit has no tax base and cannot afford to pay police officers the same exorbitant salaries that morons in the suburbs agree to pay to their bloated police departments.
The Detroit police union is just pissed that the bankrupt city of Detroit may have to reduce their insane benefits and pensions. Or even lay off a few of them.
The police union IS PART OF THE PROBLEM in Detroit.
You MUST join the police union and pay union dues AS A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT. No ifs, ands or buts.
Then the police union takes the union dues and helps elected left wing goons that promise the police union sweetheart contracts.
Public unions are the MAIN REASON why these cities are bankrupt.
Public unions (like all parasites) KILLED THEIR HOST.
And now they are mad that they are unaffordable to the city (which, BTW, is STILL run by left wing goons). It says something when the left wing goons start to turn on the public union goons.
It is 30 years too late.
Looks like it must have been a grand city back in it’s hey day. Pictures from a previous posts.
” The declaration goes on to say that DPD officers are required to work 12 hour shifts, TWELEVE HOUR SHIFTS!
Imagine how exhausting it would be to work at ANY job for 12 straight hours, finish up and look forward to coming back ½ a day later for 12 more hours! “
Don’t have to imagine it. Did it in the military all the time. I once had a boss whose philosophy was “6 to 6 to make O-6” (6am to 6pm to make colonel) but all of us who worked for him were definitely not colonels I can assure you. In fact, we all used to sarcastically say that if the military wanted us to have a family life/social life they would have issued it to us. I don’t think it has changed either. And, my friends who work in hospitals also know what 12 hour shifts are like. I think probably a lot of people work 12 hrs or even more...
Busing.
Enabling people to stay where there are no jobs created Detroit, Camden NJ, East St.Louis, Oakland CA, south Central LA, West Philly, and every other disfunctional community in the country. Te murder rate quantifies Liberal Nirvana.
I can imagine the entire country being a ‘Detroit’ soon. God help us!
The downside being, that those were the smarter, honest, and generally more productive citizens, not to mention, law-abiding. The city was
Young took it to a new level, using the tribalism of race.
There is another reason why Detroit and every other urban center in this country has become a third world cesspit. But mentioning it is verboten. The occasional aberration of a Republican mayor is simply a temporary band aid over large and suppurating wound.
And this just in...
39% of Detroit residents say they plan to leave the city within the next 5 years.
Coyotes, bear, and deer have been seen roaming greenfields that used to be thriving neighborhoods.
Detroit is liberalism’s “epic fail” for all to see.
I would add Little Falujah (Dearborn) in there with Detroit.
***Imagine how exhausting it would be to work at ANY job for 12 straight hours,***
I’ve done it and it can be done if you are on a straight shift. 10 hours is easier, but a 12 hour ROTATING SHIFT (a few days, then switch to nights for a few days, then back to days) is a real killer! 6AM to 6PM. Then 6PM to 6AM.
The worst straight shift, other than the rotating shift was a 12 midnight to noon shift.
I’m retired now and it took 6 months to catch up on 31 years of lost sleep.
Uh, union propaganda that can be summarized as follows: Give us more money and benefits. The End.