MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF POLICE STRIKES (FROM POLICE ADMINISTRATION - SELECTED READINGS, 1975, BY W J BOPP - SEE NCJ-25773)

• NCJ Number: 25786
• Author(s): J F NICHOLS
• Date Published: 1975
• Length: 8 pages
• Corporate Author: Holbrook Press
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
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Annotation

TRACES ISSUES LEADING TO DETROIT'S POLICE STRIKE IN 1967, WHICH WAS THE FIRST MAJOR CITY POLICE STRIKE IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY.

Abstract

THE AUTHOR CITES GRIEVANCES OVER WAGES AS THE CENTRAL ISSUE. THIS LED TO A SLOWDOWN IN GIVING TICKETS, WHICH WAS RESPONDED TO WITH PUNITIVE TRANSFERS. THE OFFICERS THEN RESPONDED BY CALLING IN SICK. INJUNCTIONS TO GET POLICEMEN BACK TO WORK WERE IGNORED. THE SITUATION WAS NOT RESOLVED UNTIL DETROIT POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION AND THE MAYOR ARRANGED A TRUCE AND NEGOTIATIONS.