By RO EIGEL
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RO P G rticle for
TM Wall Street Journal, Thu -
day, Feb. 24, confirmed th
id , tating, "Technological
dvan now 80 rapid that
com pa ni can hed far mo
orkers than they need to hi
to implement th technology or
upport expanding I ."
WSU choolof ocial work
alumni honor legi lator, minister
Members of the Wayne State
University School of Social
Work Alumni Association gath­
ered Feb. 11 at McGregor Memo­
rial Conference Center at WSU
to honor two community lead­
ers.
State Rep. Sharon Gire, D­
Mount Clemens, received the
Alumna of the Year award. She
, earned a master of social work
degree in 1975 and was elected
to the Legislature in 1986. She
is co-associate speaker pro tem
for the 1998-94 legislative ses­
sion and chairwoman of the Hu­
man Services and Children
Committee.
The Clinton Township resi­
dent also. is vice chairwoman of
the Consumers Committee and
a member of the Public Health,
Housing and Urban Affairs
Committee. .
Rev. Mangedwa Nyathi of
Detroit, who attended Wayne
State and received a master of
social work degree from the U ni­
versity of Michigan, received the
Citizen of the Year award. He is
first executive director of Hart­
ford Agape House,.a social serv­
ice agency of Hartford Memorial
Baptist Church in Detroit.
THE SOUTH AFRICAN
native has served as assistant to
the pastor and liturgist at Hart­
ford Memorial since 1976. He
helped expand meal service at
Hartford Senior Citizens Center
and developed the Hartford
Head Start Agency for pre­
schoolers.
Speaker Akua Budu- Wat­
kins, director of neighborhood
city halls for the city of Detroit,
told the group that the city is on
the threshold of major change.
S he said new technology i�
needed, but the "human factor"
- such as social workers -=-can't
be overlooked.
By AARON M. FONTANA
C.pltlll New. Service
LANSING - For most crimi­
nals, it seems crime does pay -
at least in the fact that most do
not get caught.
In 1992, Oakland County re­
ported a 13.3 percent arrest rate
for 51,656 total actual criminal
offenses, according to Uniform
Crime Reporting of the Depart­
ment of State Police. Macomb
County showed a 14.2 percent
arrest rate for a report of 34,000
total actual offenses.
Wayne County had a 17 per­
cent arrest rate for total offens
of30,136, in 1992. Th figures
are not totally complete due to
incomplete jurisdiction report­
ing, however.
"We don't know how to reduce
crime, frankly," said Bill Seder­
burg, vice president of Public
Sector Consultants of Lansing,
an independent, for-profit.politi­
cal analysis and public opinion
polling firm.
"THE PUBLIC· RE·
PO BE to crime is always
let's get tough on crime," said
Sederburg, a former Republican
state senator. "But getting
)
tough on criminals doesn't really
translate into reduced crime
rates."
Warren Lamb, sergeant at
the Macomb County Sheriffs
Department, said only about 22
percent of the criminal cases in
Michigan are solved, that is, end
in arrest.
Mel Grieshaber, vice presi­
dent and legislative coordinator
for the Michigan Corrections Or­
ganization, the labor union for
tate corrections officers, agreed
that the majority of criminals do
not get caught.
"Of thos who do get caught,
the majority don't go tojail," Gri­
eshaber said, "For some of your
major crimes, you're going to
a better success rate in capture."
THAT YBEtrue. For ex-
ample, Oakland County re­
ported 31 cases of murder and
non-negligent manslaughter
and 11 arrests for 1992 - a 32
percent arrest rate.
In the same year, Oakland
County reported 22,457 cas of
disorderly conduct, a consider­
ably I er crime. The total ar­
re t rate for this crim was
1,581, a much lower 7 rcent.
Anyway it's examined, it
eem the arrests rate are
much lower than the offense
rates.
"We need to look at crime
from a prevention angIe as op­
posed to this argument that
somehow criminals are sitting
out there calculating their
chan of getting caught," Sed­
erburg said.
"IF THAT WERE the model,
all of us around the table here
. would break into a house this
afternoon. "
Sederburg suggested the pre­
v ntion of cri me has to start
arly and tha it is related to
valu ,sans of appropriate be­
havior and community stand­
ards instilled at young ages.
If that w the case, thou­
nds of'peopl would be leading
a life of crime taking into ac­
count th chances of getting
caught.
Gri haber said poverty and
the b kdownof family, educa­
tion, jo all add to the crime
element. He added if there was
an increase in the chances of get­
ting caught and going to jail, he
thinks there would be I crim,
how ver.
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th
ni through," h id,
"they will have I hed employ­
ment by 20-40% from their
fewy ..
S qu Challenger, Gray
_Qbris Chicago
out placement rrm - ying
la employe laid off a total of
108,000 worke in January.
'I'hi rep nted one month
record ince the firm began
tracking uch figures in 1989,
he tated.
The article id most compa­
ni are reluctant to pecify the
impact of technology on payroll,
because they fear a "Luddite
backlash" among employees.
This is in reference to the Lud­
dite revolt in England several
centuri ago, where workers
being displaced by technology
busted machin .
What is creating the problem,
he said, is that "more and more
companies are learning to use
computer networks to cut out
work altogether, instead of sim­
ply doing it faster."
RIGDON SAID THERE is a
possibility many well-paying
jobs destroyed by technology
will be offset by well-payingjobs
created by technology. However,
she said, "For at least a few
years", technology-driven lay­
offs "seem likely to dwarf new
high-tech jobs. "
"Many .Iayoff victims will
have to settle for the low-paying
or part-time positions that are
dominating recent job growth,
because they generally aren't
t who will get t n
high. 1 �g.
'Bh no �lephon opera-
tor is not" qualified to install
wireless communication.
"The danger is that America's
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By RO SEI L before t regular m ing of \
Monday, Mareh 7, in ord to
decide what dion to
HIGHLAND P - Jennifer Franklin no that Daniel' :
Franklin, a Highland Par i- l made, no � nt on her:
dent, who has been active in call- own proposal to put the of:
ing for city efforts against an the building in escrow for baa I
lleged lum building at 11 . She tm. could t a \
Mo s, accused City Attorney p nt piDgciti lib])e.'
Eric Daniel of responding inade- trait and Highland Park in deal- •
quately to the ituation. ing with alum buildings that
At the request of th High- "dumped on them. "
land Park City Council, Daniel Daniel said the city could:
wrote a letter listing everal • Order its inspection divi-
things the city could do about sion to look into plumbing, heat­
alleged conditions in the build- ing and mechanical conditions
ingBoth Highland Par Mayor and write up violations. (Frank­
Linsey Porter and City Council lin said this waS done last year
President Dwight Downes and the city took no action on
stated publicly that the building th e violations, including the
was a slum. presence of asbestos.) oJ
Neighborhood residents • Order the police section of
charged that criminal activity the citis Public Safety Depart­
was going on there, threatening ment to set up a urveillance of
community safety the building. (Franklin . d this
• I has bee,n done in t))e but
-" � '� • MoAI.. on an . . aDd ir-
"""r'PC"D . to counCil, , v� - -'! � - .• ,
D . Un manner. a �
'tyDl uld do Afte .IlIfIJ·t of days, she slid, !ice left. he
C1 00 • r reeervmg 1, "'h""� this do � the
the Highland Park City Council �IS� De lor
voted to hold a closed meeting S CllY, A4
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