Ok, I’m going to be a little more honest I the way I’ve been portraying these stats.
I’ve been using the stupidity of our elected leaders to show the outrageousness of what they continue to proclaim. I’ve been attempting to use the Mayor’s, Acting Police Chief’s and City Council’s Logic in combating their own logic. I am going to continue to argue this completely from My Logic and point of view, from now on!
Let’s break down the Police Department honestly. Here it goes.
Using the documented numbers from the City of Flint’s budget of 177 Sworn Officers.
Also using the documented numbers from my Freedom of
Information Act Request for the Police Departments numbers of 86,616.
Also taking into account the 40 Community Policing Officers who, according to the Acting City of Flint’s Police Chief. Who were responsible for handling 22,000 incidents themselves.
Now, let’s do the real math, While giving the Police every benefit possible. Those I noted at the bottom of the spreadsheet.
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Police Force Including Sergeants. |
Community Policing Officers |
Flint Sworn Police Force (as a whole) |
Regular Officers (minus community police) |
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Number of Officers |
235 |
40 |
177 |
137 |
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Incidents |
86616 |
22,000 |
86,616 |
64,616 |
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Incidents Per Officer (WHOLE YEAR 2005) |
368.5 |
550 |
489.35593 |
471.65 |
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Average incidents per day worked* |
1.41 |
2.115385 |
1.8821382 |
1.814 |
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Total Incidents and complaints |
108767 |
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Total 911 Calls |
124428 |
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Average incidents/complaints per day worked* |
1.78 |
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Averaged 911 calls handled per day If all calls where responded to as an incident. |
2.03 |
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2.70 |
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I believe I'm being more than generous in these figures. Biased in favor, of the police department. (Actual manpower slightly higher) |
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* If average officer worked 5 days, forty hour weeks. (260 days which is common knowledge that they work much more hours) |
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** NOTE ** No leadership ranks sergeant and above used in calculations. |
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These are the REAL numbers. There is no getting around these numbers. The City's Leadership can try. But, it cannot be spun any other way than the way it is. These are the facts. Just the facts.
So here is how I would argue. I've become bored in my attempts to use their logic. So the sarcasm is coming to an end. I'm going to be more direct, and quoting even more FACTS and STATISTICS!
Why do officers only average just 2 incidents, per officer, per day? What do we need more officers for? Is 2 incidents a day considered, too much for them to handle? Why would we need more police officers if they do less in one day? Than most people do in a half a day?
How can the City Council President claim, the police are doing a fine job. When crime is going up?
How come the Mayor cannot read the City’s website with it’s own crime stats. Then figure out, that crime went up 12 percent in 2005? Then pat’s himself and his staff on the back? “IN 2005, WE SAW MAJOR CRIME REDUCED. THE RATE OF CRIME ALSO WAS REDUCED. AND WE SOLVED MORE CRIMES IN 2005. WE DID THIS WITH GOOD DECISIONS AND GREAT TEAMWORK.” How much smoke can any one person blow up the rears of an entire city? And the City of Flint still love him for it. I guess we will wait and see.
How can the Mayor find two officers to arrest a paper carrier in City Hall, between six and eight for the Flint Housing Commission meeting? Yet, when an officer is on the scene of a real crime. They make excuses as to why they cannot arrest the suspect when there are plenty of witnesses.
In 2006, the City has hired more officers? Can we expect crime to go up only 6 percent this year so we can call it a “major reduction” by it not going up another 12 percent. Because the only reduction in Crime in 2005 was the reduction in the rate of increase of crime. Not a reduction in crime. As evidenced by the City’s own website crime stats. That shows flint had it’s first major crime increase in over ten years. A 17 percent increase in 2004 and a 12 percent increase in 2005. Corresponding exactly to when Don Williamson became Mayor. Before that, even while under the State takeover. Crime was declining at a rate of almost 10 percent a year. A 30 percent increase in 2 years is not a major reduction in anyone’s dictionary. Except for the Mayor’s.
Accountability, Integrity, leadership. These are all the things this Mayor ran on. I continue to fail, at finding one instance, of any of these characteristics, played out. From the Mayor’s Office or his City Council.
Instead of voting in a Mayor of Character. I helped vote in a Mayor who is a Character. I won’t make that mistake again.