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Over 100 Cops Get Pink Slips in Michigan

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    Budget cuts lead to police layoffs

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It's not the news anyone wants to hear that cash strapped and crime ridden city of Detroit is expected -- hand -- pink slips to 108 police officers.

The low seniority officers who are expected to be laid off we'll meet Wednesday afternoon with the -- at Atwater facility.

They will receive pink -- scheduled to take -- -- a couple of weeks but according to a high ranking official at the Detroit police officers association.

None of the officers are expected to lose their jobs.

Sources tell me cheap route that -- it's reconfiguring to federal cops grants to retain the officers.

But the only way to eventually hire them back.

Is to tactically and lay them off first.

It comes down to Detroit's cash flow problem it's a -- for the city to get the salaries of around 75 officers off the books.

But in the end allowing the department to keep its rank and file.

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