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Clames

(2,038 posts)
9. No layoffs huh?
Sun Jan 27, 2013, 10:39 PM
Jan 2013
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/two-sheriffs-captains-win-first-step-in-getting-jobs-back-j43nsub-136979098.html

The battle over layoffs to the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department spilled over into the courtroom Tuesday, with the county suing to force Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. to drop 27 deputies.

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Corporation Counsel Kimberly Walker said Clarke was putting county taxpayers at risk by continuing to deploy the 27 deputies who should have lost their jobs Dec. 31. Anyone issued a speeding ticket or arrested could argue that action was invalid because the laid-off deputies no longer work for the county, she said.


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Some $13 million in cuts to the sheriff's budget for this year were approved by Abele and the board as a key budget-balancing measure. The budget limited layoffs to 61 deputies; retirements have trimmed the total number of layoffs to 27.

The issue could turn on the question of whether the deputy jobs were explicitly abolished in the 2012 budget, or just the funding - something that's subject to differing interpretations. If they weren't abolished, that could bolster Clarke's action delaying the layoffs.
prelude to massive privatization of law enforcement? pepperbear Jan 2013 #1
doesn't seem to be gejohnston Jan 2013 #3
He is a lying piece of teabagging shit. PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #2
Police have neither the ability (for obvious reasons) nor the obligation (for legal ones) to School guard Jan 2013 #4
David Clarke is a lying piece of teabagging shit. PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #6
So I've heard. But we are paying them to at least make an effort. We aren't kestrel91316 Jan 2013 #7
Courts have established it's not their responsibility to protect individuals iiibbb Jan 2013 #8
Their employment contract establishes that they not sit on their asses kestrel91316 Jan 2013 #11
Correct... they will eventually arrive to investigate the murder of an individual... iiibbb Jan 2013 #13
That doesn't mean they will get there in time to prevent a violent crime from occurring. nt hack89 Jan 2013 #19
Where does it say sylvi Jan 2013 #14
No layoffs huh? Clames Jan 2013 #9
those were a year ago and no furloughs. at all. PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #10
None of that changes the fact that there are still fewer LEO's available now... Clames Jan 2013 #12
more cops under obama than romney jimmy the one Jan 2013 #20
More fail from jimmy. Clames Jan 2013 #23
partly truth, partly fiction jimmy the one Jan 2013 #24
Why do you keep bringing up Romney? Clames Jan 2013 #25
what gives jimmy the one Jan 2013 #26
Exactly. tjnite Feb 2013 #30
It is a simple statement of fact... virginia mountainman Jan 2013 #5
honor bound tho, cops are jimmy the one Jan 2013 #15
It's not the refusal... it's the time it takes to respond to some calls. iiibbb Jan 2013 #16
This is it. jeepnstein Jan 2013 #17
to be, or not to be, iiibbb jimmy the one Jan 2013 #21
So you're both wrong iiibbb Jan 2013 #22
My Puha Ekapi Jan 2013 #18
Until the LEOs get a transporter from Star Trek kudzu22 Jan 2013 #27
David Clark is more interested in posting officers on the freeway where the SWTORFanatic Jan 2013 #28
I had a LTE published in the J.S. re Clarke for which I am now being harassed by a pro-gun blogger HereSince1628 Jan 2013 #29
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