Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:29 PM Rescue Workers and the Compensation Fund Dear Mr Feinberg As the administrator of my brother's estate I would like to register my extreme dissatisfaction with the regulations as they pertain to rescue workers and ask that you somehow find a way to make this a viable option for us. 1. Our ability to recover from such entities as the City of New York and the PANYNJ (where our ability to claim eventual court awards was not in jeopardy - as it may or may not have been in the case of airline bankruptcies) was limited by congress in exchange for access to this fund. Because of the subtraction of insurance and other benefits, especially as my brother was also a reservist, we have no reasonable recourse to the fund. This is just basically unfair. 2. Police salaries are low in part because of the burden of the extensive benefits packages offered. These are really negotiated as part of compensation in a way fundamentally different from other professions. My brother could not reasonably carry out his duties without them, so he could not negotiate them away. IN the case of Policemen and similar professions at least some of the benefits received should be considered part of their salary and not collateral sources. 3. The scales for compensation are inherently unfair in my brother's case. He was a member of one of the more skilled and elite law enforcement units in the world, the NYPD's teams. After completing twenty years in the NYPD he had a whole range of options for a second career. members have gone on to consult for major international security and consulting firms working for corporations, cities, states and foreign countries or acted as consultants to television and movie productions involving special police units. Even for the least ambitious member there are opportunities to work in Federal Agencies which specifically recruit retired cops, such as the Federal Marshals or Secret Service. Both these services have a precedent of waving age entrance limits and specifically recruiting cops finishing their 20 years in the NYPD directly into senior positions. So that in this case he would have been earning his full pension, plus a full wage as a senior Federal Employee and then be able to retire with 20 years in this second job before reaching mandatory retirement and so have two full pensions by the time he was 60. We are not sure of how all these possibilities could be taken into account in your system. Would we be able to argue he should at least be given credit for the least ambitious option, despite the fact we believe he would have achieved a lot more? Or will the fact that he theoretically could have just stopped working at 40 with a full NYPD pension, and we can not actually prove he would not have done this, mean he will not receive compensation for these lost potential earnings? Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-10 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojN001506.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-01-10