Anonymous wrote:There are help wanted signs everywhere in DC. Companies are going to need to pay a fair wage and offer good working conditions if they want staff. There's no other way around it.

Where I live (not DC) restaurants are unable to hire people due to low wages, so they’ve taken to posting on social media and posting signs *inside the restaurant itself* that government needs to abolish social services so people will be forced to work at $2.13 an hour.

Not surprisingly, it’s hurt their business. Which is probably good, since they don’t have any waitstaff anyway.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the OP read the article they linked to, it’s clear that low pay is an issue. Low paying, high risk, high stress jobs are not attractive.
OP, do you yourself have a low paying, high stress, high risk job? If not, then you likely understand what’s behind the “crisis”.

Yeah OP admonished us to read the article carefully but didn’t do that him/herself. First of all, it’s the Detroit Police Department and the Wayne County Sheriffs Office, and clearly $36,000 per year is not going to cut it. That’s embarrassing.

You can almost make more than at as an Amazon warehouse worker where you have far less risk of being shot.

I bet they could train immigrants (with clean backgrounds, who are bilingual) for these jobs.

Anonymous wrote:If the OP read the article they linked to, it’s clear that low pay is an issue. Low paying, high risk, high stress jobs are not attractive.
OP, do you yourself have a low paying, high stress, high risk job? If not, then you likely understand what’s behind the “crisis”.

Yeah OP admonished us to read the article carefully but didn’t do that him/herself. First of all, it’s the Detroit Police Department and the Wayne County Sheriffs Office, and clearly $36,000 per year is not going to cut it. That’s embarrassing.

Probably also worth mentioning that the Wayne County Sheriff's Department is not the same as the Detroit Police Department, and that Detroit-specific crimes are not primarily within the jurisdiction of the WCSD.

I would have expected the pro-cop OP to know that, actually. But maybe they are assuming that we do not?

So many cars are stolen in Detroit, there’s a Facebook group that looks for stolen cars so they can return them to their owners, because the police are too busy.

https://m.facebook.com/stolencarsinthed/

If the OP read the article they linked to, it’s clear that low pay is an issue. Low paying, high risk, high stress jobs are not attractive.
OP, do you yourself have a low paying, high stress, high risk job? If not, then you likely understand what’s behind the “crisis”.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are help wanted signs everywhere in DC. Companies are going to need to pay a fair wage and offer good working conditions if they want staff. There's no other way around it.

If you pay to much for law enforcement, it attracts the wrong people. At least, that's the working theory on DCUM.

I've never seen that on DCUM (or anywhere), but it's obvious that if you're job isnt' attractive, pay more or offer better benefits.

Anonymous wrote:There are help wanted signs everywhere in DC. Companies are going to need to pay a fair wage and offer good working conditions if they want staff. There's no other way around it.

If you pay to much for law enforcement, it attracts the wrong people. At least, that's the working theory on DCUM.

Welp. Where's the buyers who were flooding this board with 'buy in Detriot its so cheap' in 2015/2016? There's a reason its cheap.

Oh well

There are help wanted signs everywhere in DC. Companies are going to need to pay a fair wage and offer good working conditions if they want staff. There's no other way around it.

This is going to be schools soon. And there is a post her about social services lacking applicants.

^^^ in April.

Read this news account carefully:

https://www.wxyz.com/news/hiring-for-law-enforcement-jobs-requires-aggressive-marketing-and-more-pay


Takeaway here is simple:

- the Sheriff’s department has 150 job openings

- no one at all wanted to apply in April

- Detroit has a spiraling murder rate (and the vast majority of victims are young AA men).


Anyone think this should qualify as a crisis? Who is causing this total lack (zero applicants) of interest in these career jobs?

I believe our country (not just Detroit) is headed into troubling times.