Stigma, pay hamper recruiting effort at Wayne Co. Sheriff s Office
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Detroit With 200 jobs to fill at the Wayne County Jail, recruiting candidates is a top priority for Sheriff Raphael Washington.
But a recent job fair, which drew only two applicants in three hours, indicates the uphill nature of the battle for his department. When you turn on the TV and everything about the cops is bad, it makes kids not want to work in law enforcement, said Keith Williams, one of the recruiters taking part in the event May 22 outside Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ on Detroit s west side. And then there s the peer pressure.
Giving to the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) fell by nearly 50 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic. The church’s new presiding bishop, who took office on March 20, said he will have to make finances a top priority his first year.
J. Drew Sheard Sr. has a full agenda for the 8.8-million member global church, which is the fifth largest denomination in the US. He has to fill vacant leadership roles, wants to develop programs to strengthen marriages and families, and hopes to unify COGIC after an unusually competitive election, with several bishops vying to lead.
But because of the coronavirus, Sheard will have to focus on the budget first.
DETROIT In a rural stretch of Michigan along the shore of Lake Huron, coronavirus outbreaks are ripping through churches, schools and restaurants where the virus has infected line cooks and waitresses. For more than a week, ambulances have taken several hourlong trips each day to rush severely ill coronavirus patients to hospitals in Detroit, Saginaw or Port Huron, where beds in intensive-care units await. Even as the pandemic appears to be.
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