About
the Detroit Police Department
The Detroit Police Department
is the 10th largest police department in the nation. It has over 3,700 sworn
and civilian employees with an annual operating budget of over $414 million. The
Detroit Police Department is responsible for providing law enforcement service to more than 950,000 residents; over 10,000
businesses; and 258 schools in the city of Detroit, which spans 138.7 square miles.
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Donna Wudyka was hired by the
Detroit Police Department in 1987.
After 10 years of service, she
retired in 1997 on a duty-related
disability pension. Donna Wudyka
is the author of Officer’s
Nightmare.
According to the book description,
“An Officer's Nightmare is about two
white female Detroit police
officers. I am one of them. We were
involved in a police shooting in
January of 1996. Fellow officer
Patrick Prohm was fatally shot. In
this story I will describe the
aftermath of the shooting, and the
hell that the City of Detroit put my
partner and I through: Injustice,
discrimination, harassment, and
mental anguish. My partner and I
thought the incident was traumatic
enough. But wait until you see what
came after. I pray that no other
officer, anywhere in this nation,
should be treated the way we were by
the city we were sworn to protect.”
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