Staff writer Joe Guillen can be reached at jguillen@freepress.com. Not everybody gets away with what they got away with before," Hofmeister said. Doug Jones, pastor of Pontiac's Welcome Missionary Baptist Church. “If COVID outlasts the stimulus, you still have some pretty substantial revenue impacts,” said David Zin, chief economist with the nonpartisan Senate Fiscal Agency. Mayor Mike Duggan is cutting $50 million from the city’s workforce costs amid widespread revenue shortfalls due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here is who is hiring during the coronavirus outbreak in Michigan, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. In its 2020 budget, the city of Detroit will spend about $330 million on police service. The city’s blight demolition program, however, will be put on hold under the mayor’s budget deficit strategy. It's that community policing model that works.". Gretchen Whitmer said she supports the spirit behind the notion of defunding police and that budgets should provide more money for health care, education, transportation and training. Wickersham said defunding police would make it harder to keep up with the times. ", Contact John Wisely: 313-222-6825 of jwisely@freepress.com. Macomb County Sheriff Tony Wickersham said his department took over policing in Mount Clemens in 2005 and has had a similar experience. There's a whole host of factors.". Every year in Detroit, the city spends a third of its $1 billion budget on the police department, while social services are vastly underfunded. But she later clarified those remarks, saying: "I don't believe police should be defunded," but "what I hear from all of my friends who are part of this moment and who are leading on the front lines is we have a real need for greater investment in communities. Community activist Mona Hofmeister said the change worked out well for Pontiac in part because the policing was more professional. Duggan said the city will not borrow money to handle its budget crisis. "The city was going nowhere fast.". Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan wants to pump city surplus dollars into rainy day fund and retiree protection trust ... into raising police ... as part of a proposed $2.4 billion budget for 2020 … “These are large revenue losses that will require difficult decisions without additional federal aid, especially in fiscal year '22. Consolidate or disband outright whole police departments? "If you have 500 officers that you have to get through training, it could take a long time, especially if it's an eight-hour class," Wickersham said. The sheriff hired most of the Pontiac officers and added to their ranks, bringing a total of 74 deputies to Pontiac. The cuts take effect on Monday. Grateful residents sent them thank you notes, food and homemade baked goods. Camden, New Jersey, once one of America's most violent cities, disbanded its police department in 2013 and replaced it with a county-level department. "Public safety has typically been that sacred institution that isn't touched," Wilson said. "It doesn't matter what kind of a uniform you've got. Starting salary is $40,000 a year. Detroit is … "In my interviews, everybody mentions budgets, that it was a budget issue and they saved money," he said. "I think a lot of it had to do with kind of the policing of the city," he said. Other workers, including office assistants, accountants and financial analysts, will take a 20% pay cut through furloughs. More: Detroit protests: Tristan Taylor interview walking with John Carlisle, More: Women lead the way on 2 pivotal days of protest in Detroit. Younger deputies today are more conscious of work-life balance and don't immediately jump at the chance to work overtime, he said. He has researched dozens of departments that have closed for various reasons. Income taxes are expected to drop 13%, or $150 million, through June 2021. "But in about a third of the places, there were other things. The pressure worked. Its police department, which once had 220 officers, had been cut down to 50. "The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt for months and even years to come," Evans said in a statement. The council ultimately voted to rescind its decision to disband, King said. "This is a misguided, shortsighted approach to achieving the change that we all seek," the group said in a statement this week. Last week, Wickersham hosted a meet and greet in Mount Clemens and more than 100 residents and business owners showed up. The employee pay cuts are needed for the city to maintain public safety, garbage collection and other essential services at their current levels. In fiscal year 2020, police departments accounted for about 14% of total budget allocations in the 10 largest cities on average, ranging from 6% in New York to 17% in San Antonio. New York City Mayor Bill DiBlasio announced last week that he would reduce the budget of the New York Police Department and shift money into youth and social services. Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. "After the L.A. sheriff came in, our analysis showed that there were statistically significant increases in clearance rate and that there was a reduction in burglary," he said. "Nothing had changed for them. Today, you've got to get out of the car and go talk to people. Funding for the police department has fallen 20 percent in the last six years. "Residents themselves were not happy because the policemen really weren't doing their job," said Lou Schimmel, who served as emergency financial manager at the time. Pontiac in Oakland County, Mount Clemens in Macomb and Highland Park in Wayne have all eliminated their police departments to hire the sheriff. Because most of the command staffers were already in place at the sheriff's headquarters, the department was able to put more deputies on the street, Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. Police Department. Police officers and other first responders will not take a pay cut. If you need help with the Public File, call (313) 222-0566. So what does that mean? Response times for many 911 calls were 80 minutes. "There were some very good police officers there, but they were working in a system that didn't allow them to succeed on many levels," Bouchard said. They were still the same people that are trying to help the community every day in the right way. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. William King is a professor of criminal justice at Boise State University whose specialty is disbanded police departments. State Treasurer Rachael Eubanks said she was surprised at how willing consumers were to spend the federal assistance so quickly. Wilson said that was the case in one community he studied, Compton, California, which disbanded its police force in 2000. Morale among police officers tanked and the police department struggled, he said. "I think it's safer for them now," she said. "Not everybody knows everybody anymore. In its 2020 budget, the city of Detroit will spend about $330 million on police service. Wickersham said a good reform that could come from the current debate would be to create uniform training standards across the country with federal money to pay for it. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Shane Hernandez of Port Huron called for fully and safely reopening the state's economy despite the virus, reducing spending and adding to — not pulling from — savings to lessen future budget cuts when federal help ends. "We kind of attributed that to the fact that the L.A. sheriff had more resources and had a greater kind of professionalism and capacity.". "The thing to be careful about here is, all these different forms of consolidation are often kind of considered a silver bullet in some ways," he said. The city disbanded its department and signed a contract with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office to provide service.
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