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More manpower, money and morale are what Flint's police chief says is needed to a put a stop to the city's growing crime problem. He laid it all on the table at a meeting with council members.
"It's encouraging," Chief Gary Hagler said after the meeting. "But I just don't think the money's there."
Money for more cops. Hagler says an extra $500,000 in the police budget boils down to eight or nine more officers. But police say they need more like a hundred. Other officers at the meeting also expressed a need for raises. They say they haven't had a raise in over eight years.
Council members aren't ruling out that a boost in raises, and in turn morale, may come from an unexpected $1.7 million dollar budget surplus.
"But we can't dip too far into that and have a deficit," Council President Johnnie Coleman cautioned.
The meeting itself is the outgrowth of a previous one. Last week, the council opted to keep Club XClusive open. Violence there prompted the city to look at violence everywhere.
"This was a great start to identify the needs of the police," Coleman said of Wednesday's investigative hearing. "This will allow us to make a great step."
A step police say depends on everybody.
"We need to better activate our police programs, our community policing and community volunteers," Chief Hagler says. "When we stand alone we don't work as well."
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Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:57 am |
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| violence is only aproblem in the black communities. there is no white on white violent crimes in flint. the reason why there are no good jobs if there are any jobs at all to employ these violent young black people. the problem lies in the hands of the #1 business in the world, the automakers, if gm ford chrysler etc stop taking there factories out of these cities that depend on them, and sending them over seas for cheap labor. blacks would have no time to commit crime because most of them would be to tired dorm working 10 12 hours a day. i want you all to do a google search on the Anersonville Prison and watch how oppression works. These are the whites of the south oppressing the whites of the north during the civil war of america |
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Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:45 pm |
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I appreciate the information but that was a different time and a different place. The public black or white, cannot rely on companies to bail them out and blame them for their problems. I feel the reason GM has continued to pull out of American cities is the union. Come on for God's sake, just how much can a company give to a bunch of uneducated people. Not everyone can be middle or upper class. How can you expect a high school graduate or a drop out to make 27 dollars an hour and higher, plus benefits? Not realistic and it has finally caught up with them. Keep in mind, GM is not slowing down production they are building them elsewhere at a lower cost to them. GM just invested 1/2 billion dollars in a new plant in Mexico.
A few years ago GM warned the Flint community that if concessions were not made then the company would be forced to close their plants. What does the union say, "Go ahead and close we're not giving concessions." Just look at what that attitude did for the workers of Flint. The leaders of Flint and the union leaders should have been taken out and shot because they allowed the automakers to leave town. Give them what they need to stay. Now, the union leaders realize just how bad it really is with GM, Ford, and Chrysler and have come to the conculsion concessions will have to be made. No company out there has ever provided the benefits the automakers are giving which is all about to change. The President of the automakers union while in Las Vegas publicly stated the benefits offered to the autoworkers are excessive and will have to be changed.
The Japanese automakers do not offer these kinds of benefits and just look at how they are doing because employees think more about the health of the company than their own selfishness, and their still working. New day and age people whether we like it or not.
You know what else may help, "QUIT BUYING JAPANESE PRODUCTS" |
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Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:53 am |
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