Here's the scoop. We're 30 people short in a 120 person operation. That's a 25% vacancy rate. Metro PD is what?? 10% short?? We've been without a contract the exact same length of time as the firefighters, as our contracts expired the same day. The difference is, we've not had an offer from the city yet, where the firefighters have had two so farthey at least were able to reject. Our current contract, because of some slick managers in a new operation doesn't protect us from 16 hour shifts, so they