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GREENSBORO â Facing a troubling surge in violent crime and a growing population, city officials have suggested that the police department add 16 more sworn officers to its ranks.
Itâs just one of many suggestions being bandied about to help Greensboro police fight what seems, at the moment, to be a losing battle. Homicides are at a record level, and officials are grasping for ways to stem the tide of violence.
More officers on the street would be a start. The department is short about 40 sworn officers at the moment.
Just one problem, according to a new city report: Itâs not easy to find people who want to be police officers.
Almost $9 million is proposed to implement a revised Roanoke County pay scale over a three-year span, prioritizing regular raises for its more than 1,000 full-time employees, rather than increasing salaries as an afterthought like in years past, county officials said.
âIâve been here just over 20 years,â said Roanoke County Administrator Dan OâDonnell. âSince I have been here, the county has really lacked any kind of a consistent compensation philosophy.â
In the decade since 2011, Roanoke County made pay adjustments irregularly and as an afterthought, only once other budget priorities were funded, OâDonnell said. Pay adjustments doled out by the county since 2011 average 1.43% annually, which is lower than the 1.67% annual rate of inflation during that same time, according to county data.
For the past five years the Madison County prosecutor’s office has supplemented salaries with discretionary funds, a source that Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said has run dry.