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untanglingwebs
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Rumor floatting around the city is that Walling is preparing to cut 20 more officers from our ranks.
Can Mole or anyone confirm or deny? |
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:14 am |
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Dave Starr
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That should leave just enough on each shift to guard Walling.
Will we see the superduper chief patrolling the streets? |
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I used to care, but I take a pill for that now.
Pushing buttons sure can be fun.
When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way.
Paddle faster, I hear banjos. |
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:20 am |
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Bossman
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| If he cuts more the city will collapse. The department is not capable of handling the call volume efficiently at current staffing levels. Cut more and it will be impossible to keep up. |
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:18 am |
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00SL2
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| Focus Group Session, "Building and Strengthening Flint's Community Policing and Their Partnership in the Community," Thursday, April 22 at 10 a.m., Neithercut School, Room 101. if you have questions, or would like to attend, call Sandi at 517-355-9648. |
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:37 am |
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Dave Starr
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| How about "Building and Strengthening Flint's Community Policing and Their Partnership in the Community" by hiring sufficient officers to make community policing viable? |
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I used to care, but I take a pill for that now.
Pushing buttons sure can be fun.
When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way.
Paddle faster, I hear banjos. |
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:45 am |
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Bossman
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| Gee....the contact number for the session is a Lansing number. Go figure. That's part of Walling's problem. This isn't Lansing. This is Flint. Different socio-economic environment, different crime levels, and different attitudes. |
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:10 pm |
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Dave Starr
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| Sounds like the focus group bunch from Lansing that had a "crime prevention" meeting at Salem Housing recently. It was so well advertised that 10 people showed up. People that attended told me it was a waste of their time, something along the lines of the neighborhood inaction sessions. |
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I used to care, but I take a pill for that now.
Pushing buttons sure can be fun.
When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way.
Paddle faster, I hear banjos. |
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:23 pm |
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Crowfeeder
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Oh,why not? It would accomplish in a few days what is now taking weeks. |
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:24 pm |
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo
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quote:
00SL2 schreef:
Focus Group Session, "Building and Strengthening Flint's Community Policing and Their Partnership in the Community," Thursday, April 22 at 10 a.m., Neithercut School, Room 101. if you have questions, or would like to attend, call Sandi at 517-355-9648.
The focus groups are being set up by Michigan State University. I believe they were to be in place before the foot patrol started.
According to MSU the foot patrol is not in place yet. This was a surprise because I thought they were in place sometime in mid march.
CITYWIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION AND PUBLIC SAFETY SUMMIT
SATURDAY, APRIL 24TH
MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE- BALLENGER FIELD HOUSE
8:30A.M. TO NOON
8:30 AM IS CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
SUMMIT STARTS AT 9:00 A.M.
Walling is supposed to reveal the plan for foot patrols etc. |
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Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:03 pm |
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo
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Looks like 10 officers lost
FLINT (WJRT) -- (05/06/10)--After losing nearly 50 Flint Police officers in late March, 10 more could be on their way out, too, if the mayor's proposed police department budget goes into effect as is.
Budget hearings are underway department by department. Council members questioned police department officials Wednesday.
One of the things that came up? A towing contract.
It was last October the city-run Flint police impound lot closed -- a business that in its best, recent years made the city more than $950,000.
The contract for towing, storage and auctions was awarded to Complete Towing. At the time, Mayor Dayne Walling said the city wanted out of the impound business.
"There were all kinds of hidden costs," Walling said.
But according to invoices obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the police department is paying out thousands of dollars a month to Complete Towing.
Just in towing and storage and just for the first three months, Complete Towing billed the police department near $60,000.
Keith Speer, president of the Flint Police Officer's Association, has been vocal about this topic.
"No one has been able to show those hidden costs," he said.
"There's no reason we shouldn't handle it, but they'd rather pay a friend, a political ally an exorbitant amount of money."
The mayor said the city should still see a nearly $100,000 profit this year under this contract. And there will always be a profit because of the way the contract is written.
Walling says projections showed the lot in the long run -- if city run -- would lose money because of declining revenues and rising expenses.
Some still don't buy that and say the money the lot could make is money badly needed for the police department right now.
(Copyright ©2010 WJRT-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.) |
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Fri May 07, 2010 6:02 pm |
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo
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156392 1/28/2010 COMPLETE TOWING SERVICE $44,290.75
155395 12/10/2009 COMPLETE TOWING SERVICE $20,370.00
155061 11/25/2009 COMPLETE TOWING SERVICE $16,460.00 |
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Fri May 07, 2010 6:05 pm |
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo
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pending payments on hold:
006 2/16/2010 COMPLETE AUTO $66,329.75 DEPARTMENT HOLD POLICE
007 2/28/2010 COMPLETE AUTO $25,385.00 NONE DEPARTMENT HOLD POLICE
008 3/30/2010 COMPLETE AUTO $43,911.00 NONE DEPARTMENT HOLD POLICE
009 3/31/2010 COMPLETE AUTO $16,775.00 NONE DEPARTMENT HOLD POLICE |
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Fri May 07, 2010 6:07 pm |
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