Detroit Police; Enter Detroit at your own risk
Fox News reports that the Detroit police greeted fans at the Tigers game with handbills that warned them to stay out of Detroit;
As they poured into Comerica Park, fans were given the fliers reading: “Attention: Enter Detroit at Your Own Risk.” It warned that Detroit is America’s most violent city and that the city’s police force is grossly understaffed.
“We’re not discouraging people from coming, I love the city, I want them to realize we don’t have enough man hours,” police union president Joe Duncan told the station. “I don’t think the city is going to get same officer 8 hours a day as you do for 12 hours a day.”
Category: Crime
Dude, tell me something I don’t know. I go occasionally downtown–for Tigers games–but I take what I need to ensure we are protected. And it ain’t the DPD. They make it sound like a threat, and there are some around here that will tell you the DPD is more dangerous than the thugs in the streets…
If only there was some kind of law where regular citizens could carry weapons and protect themselves. Sure, this means that Michigan will need more Republicans in office before that’s allowed…
Translation: Union thugs demanding more OT.
“Gee, at’s a nice city ya got’s heah…be a shame if sometink’s was to happens to it…”
I’m originally from the Detroit area. Left when I enlisted in the USAF in 1971. When I retired in 1991, I moved up to Tacoma. I still have family there and I visit every now and then. I always take a side trip to the D. Two blocks from Comerica Park, it looks like a war zone. Woodward Ave used to be one of the grandest avenues in America. The whole street out to 8 mile is boarded up buildings, crack whores and dealers. The Cops are probably as much part of the problem as anything else. They are probably more dishonest than the thieves on the street. At least you know they are thieves.
Democrats and unions. What more needs be said.
Yeah, it’s all about collective bargaining and that’s all. More police are needed to ask more questions of people who won’t answer them and, of course, to string the police tape around crime scenes. Whatever.
I think everybody is right here, the union are thugs, Detroit is America’s Sarajevo, and there are still some good people still left. I was attached to a unit from the Detroit area in Iraq in 2009. It was bad. We had junior enlisted acting like they were gangsters back on the block, leadership that didn’t care and got fired by the CG of 1st Armored, and senior enlisted leadership that screwed their NCOs over daily. All from Detroit.
The Kentucky Fried Movie was made 35 years ago and Detroit is still a punchline.
For those who are unfamiliar with that masterpiece of American comedy-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVDDYQlmq0w&feature=related
No suprise here.
This city has been the model for urban decline for years.
@2 NR Pax
Michigan has a CCW law and believe it or not, Jennifer Granholm is the one who signed it.
I have actually been stopped by the DPD and told I was in the wrong part of town. I was then given directions for the shortest route to the Lodge….
Yep, I had a chance at a 1SG job there at a reserve unit, I’m so F’n glad I didn’t get it. I would’ve gone from a FOB in Afghanistan to a really really dangerous place called Detroit…
bullnav
At least I live further away from Detroit than you! Maybe we’ll run into each other at the range at Sharon Valley!
All these comments are right except NR Pax. Michigan has concealed carry laws but if you’re going to Comerica or Ford Field, you can’t carry into the place. Best to leave it at home rather than have it stolen from your car.
Wait. People still go to Detroit? Willingly, or like if they lose a bet or something?
The little bits about Detroit we get out on the Left Coast paint it almost like a Mad Max landscape with less Australian accent and more violence.
Mea Culpa, @11 and 14. I stand corrected and chastised.
I like the line: “We’re not discouraging people from coming, ”
What else would you call a flier handed to you by the police telling you they can’t protect the city they are sworn to protect? A welcome letter?
This type of flier places a black mark on the character and nature of police work in Detroit. It’s an attempt to use the threat of violence to discourage tourists to avoid the city and to punish the city for not agreeing to their demands by reducing potential income from tourism/entertainment.
The interesting part is with less influx of suburbanites with cash to spend where do these dumb4sses think the money will come from? Government employee unions seem to think you can constantly raise prices through taxation. People who can leave will then leave to avoid the higher taxation rates, and those left behind are also like the police in that they are parasites on the general funds raised through taxation. So with less income the city must decide what to no longer offer in services….police, education, trash removal. It’s a self destructive path at best and cynical extortion attempt at worst.
Detroit. The entire city limits needs a fence. Then it needs all government bodies dissolved. And finally it needs to be declared a free trade zone. First come first rights. Enough with the government program for the poor people of Detroit. Let the market handle Detroit … just like other big cities … oh sorry Detroit is not a city … it is like a third world barrio … a perfect shame!
BTW I would not travel to Detroit nor discharge my weapon in Detroit. It would be a waste of a perfectly good round.
Hey. Maybe we can buy the houses of the 16 people left in Detroit and move them out. Then, build a big-ass fence around it as MCPO NYC USN suggests. Then create a US Police Department (maybe substitute Homeland Security). Then start dumping the worst of the offenders in there.
And maybe later we’ll need a guy named Snake Pliskin to go in and retrieve nuclear launch codes.
Or even considering a Reverse Californication there: Get a whole bunch of military types to police the area, enough of a majority to get in some good political types and start rebuilding.
Hey; a man can dream…
This is nothing but Union politics. There’s a ballot measure this year, Proposal 2, which, if approved, would seal “collective bargaining” into the Michigan Constitution. The backers, unions, are running tons of ads that firefighters won’t have turnout gear, cops won’t have guns or uniforms and teachers won’t have
pensionssupplies, if it doesn’t pass.So, the DPOA is just playing on the city’s reputation to do their part for Prop 2. And, to push for the return to the 4-40 work plan, or the 8 hour day, along with pay raises. Even though there is no tax base left in the city.
Up north about nailed it, this nothing more than union thugs pushing their agenda. Detroit is the perfect example of the long term result of progressive and liberal policies. Nothing is ever anybodies fault, the city government spends more time showboating for the cameras than it does discussing pressing issues. Whenever a crisis arises that affects the suburbs who are tied by the throat of Detroit for water and sewer they only ever want our money. I love Michigan and I enjoy living in the Detroit area but its crap like this that makes me irate. It appears that the political winds are shifting though, maybe some day in my life time we will finally be rid of the strong arm unions.
Well there’s your problem. Detroit Police Chiefs can’t seem to keep it in their pants. 2 down in 2 years.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/10/08/detroit-mayor-to-address-police-chiefs-suspension/
#19
I feel better knowing I’m not the only one that was thinking of Plisken. Surprisd I haven’t seen Robocop jokes yet though
I vacationed in Waterford with some friends a month or so ago. When I arrived my friend basically told me if I wanted to see anything in Detroit I was gonna have to rent a car as she wouldnt take me into Detroit to save my life.
@24
I think Robo is a bit above Detroit’s operating expenses per annum. Though, on second thought, they probably can get funding from the Feds if they paint him green and swear to never, ever, ever use him to deport illegal alie….uhh…undocumented workers.
As my wife says “stay classy Detroit”
@9 68W58: this was on the “related” list of the vid you linked:
A Tour Of Detroit’s Ghetto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6WKMNmFsxM&feature=related
It really does look like a war zone.
End the War on (Some) Drugs. That’ll cut the workload by 1/2 to 2/3rds I would estimate. Prohibition II: The same failure as Prohibition I, but we tried it longer, harder, faster and deeper, and killed more people, innocent and guilty. That must mean it’s working, right?
Casey @28, is that Detroit or Mogadisha? BTW, when this first posted on Drudge saturday, Cinemax was broadcasting all three Robocop movies. Coincidence? You make the call.
I watched several of those Detroit ghetto videos, including the documentary about the grand buildings built in the early 20th century, which are now in ruins, and it’s just sad, but Detoit is not the only city in this country where these things are happening. Gary, IN, used to be a steel town until Inland Steel went belly up, and I remember when that happened. The company took all the money in the employee pension funds and used it to pay off creditors and evaporated into thin air, leaving all those workers with no jobs and no pensions. There are parts of Gary that are so dangerous, the police won’t go into them. I see foreclosure and sheriff’s sale notices in the classifieds every day. In 2007, it was up to more than 450 per day. It’s a little less now, but the houses that were sold for $350,000 in 2006, at the height of the housing boom, are now on the sales books for less than half of that, and for months at a time. There is a house that was built in 2005, when I moved out here and saw it being built. It has stood empty for 7 long years. No one will even give it a second glance, but the idiot developers come in, one after another, and set up shop with the idea that people are still dumb enough to pay too much for an overpriced house in the sticks. And I’m seeing expensive homes going for less than their original price, because people are moving into the city to cut the cost of commuting to work. Unless something changes, and someone puts a chokechain on the unions, it’s just going to get worse. I have two local politicians vying for my vote next month, for the state legislature. The tax base around here, which is the base for a lot of things like teachers’ salaries, is being depleted by unemployment and loss of real estate taxes as people move away. I don’t know where either of these clowns thinks the money is going to… Read more »
@31
Ladyhawke is an awesome movie. Don’t let anyone tell you any different.
It’s funny because it wasn’t too long ago that Detroit police were trying to buy up Firearms from citizens. A local adcovacy group setup shop nearby and offered higher prices.
I saw more cops there than I have ever seen on the street.
@31, My father used to be a crane millwright at Bethleham Steel. He used to tell me stories about having to go through Gary. He would say that if you had a certain skin color the cops wouldn’t stop you if you went through a red light in certain parts of town because it was too dangerous for you to stop.
Old Tanker, it has been a while since I made it out there. I end up too busy with the Navy Reserve or work or the young’un. But we need to do that…