He offers that they felt they deserved it for working hard in thankless, underpaid jobs.
The 12 DPS principals and one assistant superintendent involved were paid an average of roughly $115,000, according to a state database.
Wayne State's Peter Henning’s comments appeared in a nationwide Associated Press story about the scandal.
It read, “Wayne State University Law School professor Peter Henning described it as a scenario that is all too familiar in a city where public employees think they are owed more than they get for difficult, thankless jobs.”
Then it quoted Henning: “I doubt any of them really thought they were doing anything wrong — they (believed they) were just getting something they deserved. They worked hard, were underpaid and had to deal with all the stuff that goes on in DPS.”
...The state database includes total salaries and bonuses, if any, but not benefits.
...The highest salary was $126,103 and the lowest was $104,374.
Here are the individual salaries of 11 of the 13 DPS officials who have been charged:
- Tanya Bowman: $126,103
- Clara Flowers: $121,375
- Nina Graves-Hicks: $119,546
- Clara Smith: $116,532
- James Hearn: $114,943
- Tia’Von Moore-Patton: $113,832
- Stanley Johnson: $113,231
- Beverly Campbell: $113,033
- Ronald Alexander: $112,926
- Gerlma Johnson: $108,313
- Josette Buendia: $104,374
Per capita income in the city of Detroit was $14,984 from 2010 to 2014."
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