Boston Police dispatchers are calling for help, saying increasingly low staffing levels are making a tough job untenable as more and more employees leave.
Sean Murphy, a former BPD dispatcher, quit this year to work for the union that represents the workers, and he said he’s one of multiple dispatchers and calltakers who have had enough and left.
“A lot of long-term people like myself have decided that they’re tired of waiting for them to do the right thing,” Murphy, who now works for SEIU 888, said of the police department. “There’s been an extreme rate probably over the past year or so.”
He said it’s gotten so bad that people who’ve put in 15 or 20 years of the 25 needed for a full pension are simply deciding it’s not worth it to hang in… READ MORE
