,
Why no African Americe
c
manag
y none
qual f
candidates, said Manning, .
the problem that they had,
without exception, the &p-
. plicants could DOt pass the writ­
ten exam or the IDysical exam
or if they did there ere other
problems with background and
drug e ..
At the Monday night, Buttbecityisstilliooki fOl'
February 5, Beato!! HaIbor aty qualified minority caadidatcs,
Commission meeting, city resi- said Manning. .
dent Rickey Hin, 646 Colfax Hill told the comm;MiOll that
AvCll ed the oommission, he, a citizen would like to be
-if Y of the three police of- introduced to the new officers,
tieers that ere receudy hired have them present the city
by the aty of Benton Harbor, codaymmissiOO m� QIl Mnn-
ere African-American- and ' 0 the people will bow
hy can't the city hire ome w� �. officers .L_. _
African-American officers. • hired are Dan , .... _.1.. �y-"
The question sp rked a vauuu,
heated di c ion am th with the Berrien Springs-
• .00. Oronoko Township Police
Hill aid, there i a lot of Departm . GregOI)' Bums of
aime going OIl in the city and Pa Paw, a part-time officer in
the police officers needed to �wan; aed Tunothy Essiz of
know, who the good people are' Traverse Oty, a recent police
academy graduate.
aDd who the bad people are, 0 Hill also asked w type of
there on' t be any mi takes training do the officers get in
�iy M dealing with an area like Benton
. d, city offici have Harbor � aid the officers go
made a pecial effort to recruit thro· ,
even paid the city' ex-. ugh -Intensive training
pease, to have minority can:' program- -through the police
academy and when they come to
. <i go to the police academy work for .the city they are
g . certifi' efromthe asigned to the "most ex-
st e and come back and wo
perieeced officer, - and they are
for the city. placed utomatically under a
The city bad worked one-year probation and their
four mon trying to recruit peri ce i evaluated twice
during their fU'St year.
Commission Charle
Y 8Ibrough said is a stroag
believer that if people live
where they w - - expecially
police officers- - they'll treat
people a whole lot better when
they stop them, - than those who
don't live in the community.
Yarbrough said when you
don't have people living where
they work, they're not as s i­
tive as they could be.
WANT IDE CY
REQUIREMENT
- People that don't or
where they live don't give a d, .•
w bat happens to the people
hen they get off work t 5
o'clock,"
When police officer stops
you and he knows tha you are
neighbors, you would get better
treatment, said Yarbrough, ad­
v.ocating residency require>
ments for police officers.
Commissioner George
Wysinger said he blames the .
parents, churches and the com­
munity as a whole for the condi­
tion that the community is in.
Wysingcr said the average
child today w cbes television
4-5 hours a day. He aid the
parents ut recreation over
cducatioo.'·Aad when i�s time
for the child to get a job, they
find out that they are not
qualified. - Then they loose hope
and pick up the dope d once
tro/men?
. they pck up the
thioklbere's no wa possible to
tum them around," e said
Wysinger put a otion on the
floor thar all city employees
hired beginning ebruary 6,
1990, should resi in the Uty
of Beotoo Harbor. Yarorough
supported the moo
MANAGE SAY
HAVE TO BE PAl
INC
to come to
the city
ide them
ah
jog in the city 0 Benton Har­
bor", Yubrough said, "that is
totally asinine,"
- With the 100% (pay) in- .
crease for the commissioners,
they have to live in the city of
Benton Harbor according to th
city charter, and tb re are police
officers making $20, a year
and don't have to live nthecity!
'I can't buy tha'" said
Yarbrough.
"You want to p of this
community, you're paid tax­
payers dollars and yo ought to
be a resident. Either that or pay
city income tax - nobody
wants to do that - they frown
on How are we going to
build this community up
ain wb you got absentee
t3ployees (9-5) is w I like to
call thcm.-
STARr wrm YOUIH
Commi . er Am dSmith
s . d there houId be so type
of p-ogram in the to help
the youths th are interested in
becoming police officer or
training in tha field, beca he
knew of SOlD stude Ben-
ton EJI'bor High Schools that
could pass the test.
Y rbrough said the test
should be checked 0 because
the test _. be hi .•
Commi ioner Steve
Wooden . d, if the commissioo
adopts the motion, the city
I' would ot be e to. hire the
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