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Phoenix s proposed police contract includes pay raise, discipline reforms
The draft contract includes an additional pay raise in exchange for the officers agreeing to accountability and transparency reforms.
and last updated 2021-04-06 22:27:47-04
PHOENIX â The City of Phoenix has reached a tentative contract deal with the city s largest police union including provisions for a pay raise and accountability reforms.
As protesters and community advocates still call for defunding the police, the draft of the two-year memorandum of understanding would give rank-and-file officers a five percent raise. City officials say that raise is the same across citywide for all employee bargaining groups.
The previous night, Ryan s daughter Pamela Cooper, 49, had worked a shift of more than 15 hours at Phoenix s 911 dispatch center. Cooper was a 20-year veteran of the dispatch center, but it was her first week back after six weeks recovering from COVID-19. She was still feeling unwell but was out of paid leave and supporting both her mother, a widow on social security, and her husband, whose unemployment has run out.
“She said, I got to work to pay the bills, Ryan remembers.
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The first few days were difficult, but on Friday, February 26, Cooper really started to go downhill.