[jmaroneps37]

Detroit is quickly slipping into a sink hole.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Like most large cities, I’m sure you have to reside inside city limits in order to be employed there. And if you remove all Detroit city residents who have felony convictions from applying, the candidate pool gets very small indeed.

[MinuteGal]

"Council member Kwame Kenyatta......."

You can't make stuff like this up.

Leni

[Dem Guard]

"Detroit is quickly slipping into a sink hole."

[Navy Patriot]

I don’t think that this will change much of anything, Detroit city government employees are all criminals already, they’re just looking forward to their convictions.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Good. Keep em’ in Detroit.

[chrisser]

This reminds me of a company I once worked for.

When I was hired, I had to take a drug test. First person ever in the company history.

I’ve never used so I found it ironic when I started that everyone else - including the owner and senior management - were regular pot users. Some were even smoking on company time in small groups.

Sometimes I wonder if I was hired in spite of being clean. I was apparently the last to have to take the test too.

I left there after about a year - one of the most dysfunctional places I ever worked.

[jettester]

Just got back from a family roadtrip around Michigan with the last two days in the Detroit area. Took a sidetrip down Woodward to the ballparks, back towards Northland and over to Grosse Pointe to show the kids the lake. My out-of-town relatives could not believe how depressing it all looked and felt driving through some of those neighborhoods, especially along 7 & 8 Mile Roads. And I told them that they weren't even seeing the worst of it yet. Another bummer was seeing the empty spot where Briggs Stadium used to sit - now a flat, weed-filled field.

[MinuteGal]

"Felony" may include assault/battery, arson, burglary, illegal drug use/sales, grand theft, kidnapping, robbery, murder, rape and vandalism.

In other words, Detroit government employers will henceforth require only a rap sheet instead of a resume be presented in order to qualify for a job.

Leni

[Larry Lucido]

Lots of “felonies” shouldn’t be felonies. Possessing an expended can of CS gas in Michigan (which used to be perfectly legal) is now charged as a felony.

Not saying the proposed bill is a good thing, but just making that one point.

[Bernard Marx]

Where Democrats rule felons benefit

Seems to me that's a distinction without a difference.

[Oldpuppymax]

TRANSLATION: The amateur criminals will now be working for the true, government PROFESSIONALS!!

[grey_whiskers]

Cheers!