Well we certainly can disagree on that. Crime happens when people allow it to happen. If it takes a village to raise a child it also takes a village to be proactive in it''s defense against criminal incursions. The NYPD is not the Gestapo.. To use a Nazi reference like that BAC is ridiculous. NYC is just very proactive in how they go after criminals. You cant provide Opportunity if crime is high. Nobody will want to invest their money where a business will be robbed every night by roving gangs of thugs. No large corporations want to set up headquarters where their people will be mugged on the streets or their cars stolen. So how can you have opportunity when you cant provide safety?
With Murder, Arson, Robbery and Assault running rampant nobody will invest millions of dollars in developments until they can be assured that their investment is reasonably secure.
Do you want kids to be safe in Detroit? Have them off the streets at night. If they are not out there the chances of something happening to them decreases exponentially. If someone breaks the law... arrest them. Everything from Pan-handling to Murder. If criminals are allowed to get a foothold they never leave unless confronted with superior force and tactics.. The community must stop remaining silent and speak up to the police if they know something.
And the Arson... It's destroying good properties as well as the abandoned ones. My Fire Department was out there last year during the lead up to Devils night (Angels Nights) and we worked with the DFD ... these guys are on the verge of giving up. They have little functional equipment and have a workload that would swamp the FDNY! Get the Criminals off the streets and the arson has to slow down. Good people are losing their homes to it. I even saw a few weeks ago that the University Club was torched. Cass High School was burned (Old Building), The Eastown Theater and so many other places up in flames. And 200+ calls on Devils night.. Where does it end? Why is it allowed to happen? How do you get these problems under control without serious police intervention?
Something has to be done my friend... what should it be?
I agree with you that something has to be done, but you should understand this first and foremost when considering options for Detroit. STRESS or anything remotely like it will never, ever, EVER be allowed to happen again in Detroit. It will NEVER be an option .. nor should it be EVER.
Conditions that led to the Algiers Motel Incident will never happen again in Detroit EVER.
With all due respect .. and with even more respect than that .. making victims out of innocent people can never be the answer and again, although you may not, people of color see NY's stop and frisk as Gestapo-like tactics .. and I agree.
Stop-and-Frisk Data
An analysis by the NYCLU revealed that innocent New Yorkers have been subjected to police stops and street interrogations more than 4 million times since 2002, and that black and Latino communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics. Nearly nine out of 10 stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent, according to the NYPD’s own reports:
In 2002, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 97,296 times.
80,176 were totally innocent (82 percent).
In 2003, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 160,851 times.
140,442 were totally innocent (87 percent).
77,704 were black (54 percent).
44,581 were Latino (31 percent).
17,623 were white (12 percent).
83,499 were aged 14-24 (55 percent).
In 2004, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 313,523 times.
278,933 were totally innocent (89 percent).
155,033 were black (55 percent).
89,937 were Latino (32 percent).
28,913 were white (10 percent).
152,196 were aged 14-24 (52 percent).
In 2005, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 398,191 times.
352,348 were totally innocent (89 percent).
196,570 were black (54 percent).
115,088 were Latino (32 percent).
40,713 were white (11 percent).
189,854 were aged 14-24 (51 percent).
In 2006, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 506,491 times.
457,163 were totally innocent (90 percent).
267,468 were black (53 percent).
147,862 were Latino (29 percent).
53,500 were white (11 percent).
247,691 were aged 14-24 (50 percent).
In 2007, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 472,096 times.
410,936 were totally innocent (87 percent).
243,766 were black (54 percent).
141,868 were Latino (31 percent).
52,887 were white (12 percent).
223,783 were aged 14-24 (48 percent).
In 2008, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 540,302 times.
474,387 were totally innocent (88 percent).
275,588 were black (53 percent).
168,475 were Latino (32 percent).
57,650 were white (11 percent).
263,408 were aged 14-24 (49 percent).
In 2009, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 581,168 times.
510,742 were totally innocent (88 percent).
310,611 were black (55 percent).
180,055 were Latino (32 percent).
53,601 were white (10 percent).
289,602 were aged 14-24 (50 percent).
In 2010, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 601,285 times.
518,849 were totally innocent (86 percent).
315,083 were black (54 percent).
189,326 were Latino (33 percent).
54,810 were white (9 percent).
295,902 were aged 14-24 (49 percent).
In 2011, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 685,724 times.
605,328 were totally innocent (88 percent).
350,743 were black (53 percent).
223,740 were Latino (34 percent).
61,805 were white (9 percent).
341,581 were aged 14-24 (51 percent).
In 2012, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 532,911 times
473,644 were totally innocent (89 percent).
284,229 were black (55 percent).
165,140 were Latino (32 percent).
50,366 were white (10 percent).
http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data
Those kind of statistics in Detroit and war will break out. In fact ..
New York's Stop-and-Frisk War Has Reached the Breaking Point
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/new-york-city-council-stop-and-frisk/66644/
Any thought that Bloomberg may have had about running for president he can forget about.
The problems of Detroit are multi-faceted and requires the buy-in of all involved. Detroit is just the tip of the iceberg to problems that are being experienced all over the country .. which is what happens when the federal government spends more money on war than the cities where people live.
