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Consider the facts. APD has an 11% attrition rate (4.5% for other city emeeoypls, 2% for fire department), 70% of the department has less than 10 years of service, most new hires leave within 3-5 of service for more consistantly paying police departments. APD hires 1 out of 9 applicants, and from time of application to the completion of field training is one year. APD hires over 200+ officers per year and looses that many annually. APD is a young department that is hiring people who need a job not people who want to police. The difference between the two is once the economy takes an up-tick (expected in 2012), young officers are gone to more competitive departments or back to the private industry where they belong. Policing is not remotely like any other job in the city, yet we are compared to all city emeeoypls in pay and benefits. We represent 55% of the city payroll, thus the largest department in the city, and the largest PD in Georgia. Period. If a ditch digger believes he should make as much as the doctor, let him train like one and do the job. This is not communist Russia, y'all. There is differential pay for a reason. If someone wants to be payed as much as a police officer, apply for the job we have 200 openings annually. That's not generally going to happen because no one actually wants to do what it takes to be a police officer. They just want everyone to be equal like the doctor and the ditch digger.My prediction is such: 1)the courts will side with previous Georgia Supreme Court rulings on this matter and rule the city's attempt to breach an aggreement/contract will be illegal. 2.) city council members will find another way to fund this deficit to prevent their phones from blowing-up over constituants raging complaints. 3.) Mayor Reed will get credit for trying to act conservative in amoungst Democrats which will enable him to position himself for his next political move, which won't include anything in Atanta government. 4.) city emeeoypls healthcare contributions will become substantially more and retired officers health cost will skyrocket (because they are the most vulnerable), thus finding the budget savings without affecting the pensions and preventing an expensive court challenge.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
NiCz
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
17 december 2014, 00:46:00
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