Detroit Is Unsafe For Visitors

[Will E Worm]

Enter At Your Own Risk: Police Union Says ‘War-Like’ Detroit Is Unsafe For Visitors

The men and women of the Detroit Police Department believe the city is too dangerous to enter, and they want citizens to know it.

Detroit Police Officer Association (DPOA) Attorney Donato Iorio said officers are holding the “Enter At Your Own Risk” rally at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in front of Comerica Park to remind the public that the officers are overworked, understaffed, and at times, fearful for their lives.

“Detroit is America’s most violent city, its homicide rate is the highest in the country and yet the Detroit Police Department is grossly understaffed,” Iorio told WWJ’s Kathryn Larson. “The DPOA believes that there is a war in Detroit, but there should be a war on crime, not a war on its officers.”

Iorio says the once 2,000 strong force is shrinking rapidly; since the start of summer, hundreds of officers have left the department.

“These are the men and women who we look to protect us… and police officers can’t protect you if they’re not there. Officers are leaving simply because they can’t afford to stay in Detroit and work 12 hour shifts for what they are getting paid… These police officers are beyond demoralized, these officers are leaving hand over fist because they can no longer afford to stay on the department and protect the public,” he said.

And that’s why Iorio cautions those who enter the city to be wary.

“The explosion in violent crime, the incredible spike in the number of homicides and for officers trying to work 12 hours in such deplorable, dangerous and war like conditions is simple untenable,” he said.

Iorio said the department today has less officers than ever, even though crime rates are through the roof.

“By denying police officers the appropriate manpower, there’s a manpower crisis right now, there’s 1,000 fewer police officers today than there was 10 years ago, yet the homicide rate is higher. There’s more crime now than before, so if anything you need more officers, not fewer officers,” he said.

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[Will E Worm]

Detroit: Now and Then Link

Forgotten Detroit Link

Forgotten Detroit – 100 Abandoned Houses Link

 

[assari]

What a slum!

Dirty and everything is broken.

Things like that happen when the economy collapses and people are immoral.

Do they have food and water?

 

[Will E Worm]

What a slum!

Dirty and everything is broken.

Things like that happen when the economy collapses and people are immoral.

Do they have food and water?

This happened well before the economic problem. You have to read about it more.

Some of those buildings have been empty since before the 80's and probably the 70's and before.

Detroit's decline started with the race riots of the late 60's.

1967 Detroit Link

 

[STDiva]

I'm in Detroit frequently. It's not as bad as the media makes it out to be.

Also, the term 'war' is thrown around way too often.

 

[PirateKing]

 

[bahodeme]

So in the article, it's the police union that said they do not feel safe during a rally so there will be more police and better working conditions. This was the same scare tactic that was done in D.C. during the mid-late eighties. It was more dangerous for the people living there than the tourists because the local government did not want a stop of revenue due to bad publicity of a tourist being killed. Therefore, an effort was made to make sure the tourist attractions were safe at the cost of the residents.

 

[assari]

This happened well before the economic problem. You have to read about it more.

I understand that such a disaster can not happen in a few years.

Too many people living in the America.

Too many immigrants + not enogh jobs = Slum society.

 

[John_8581]

This calls for Peter Weller as Robocop...



... As the movie did take place in Detroit.

 

[knowone]

This calls for Peter Weller as Robocop...
... As the movie did take place in Detroit.

As is the remake next summer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_(2013_film)

 

[Will E Worm]

I understand that such a disaster can not happen in a few years.

Too many people living in the America.

Too many immigrants + not enogh jobs = Slum society.

Too many jobs were allowed to be exported.

Too many able-bodied people allowed to stay on welfare and not made to work.

Also, too many illegals allowed to stay in the country and not protecting the borders.

 

[georges]

It is full of ghetto trash and shit kinda like the bronx, the queens and harlem, but way much more dangerous. Flint and Lansing are also that bad.

 

[bobjustbob]

I knew Detroit was bad but I just read another piece about this shit hole. 1/4 of all residential parcels is vacant. 1500 crimes a week. You have a 1 in 16 chance of being the victim of a property crime. Top pay for cops is 53K and is to be cut to 48K. Who wants that fucking job?

 

[PirateKing]

It is full of ghetto trash and shit kinda like the bronx, the queens and harlem, but way much more dangerous. Flint and Lansing are also that bad.

That's a pretty pretentious and dehumanizing thing to say. Detroitians are people too, ya know.

 

[meesterperfect]

Detroitians are people too.

waka doo - waka doo - waka doo - waka doo.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

It's been one of the most dangerous cities in America for a long time.

Detroit

Crime Risk Index: 369

Detroit is the most populous of the 11 most dangerous cities and has a correspondingly high volume of crimes. In 2009, the number of violent and property crimes in the greater Detroit area totaled over 68,000, compared to Memphis’ 59,000. Motor City also has a high rate of arson--there were 624 reported acts of arson in Detroit in 2009. Cleveland was the next-closest city of the top 11, with 401.

Yes, there is no shortage of shitheads there.

 

[bobjustbob]

They started some kind of program there to get people to move back in and dress the place up a bit in the business district. Some companies are offering assistance to workers to move closer to work and the city is adding extra policing there. Some are taking advantage of it since they only have to travel 5 minutes to work instead of 45.

 

[assari]

They started some kind of program there to get people to move back in and dress the place up a bit in the business district.

Bob, easy question;

What is the main reason for Detroit's downfall?

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

I'll shoot. GM producing a shit product for a few consecutive decades, IMO.

If they weren't pumping out shit product for the 70s, 80s and 90s it might be a different tune there today.

 

[georges]

That's a pretty pretentious and dehumanizing thing to say. Detroitians are people too, ya know.

No, it isn't pretentious nor dehumanizing, I call the trash the trash. I visited Detoit, Lansing and Flint back in 1996, it was already shit, now it is far far worse. Why do you fucking care so much? You are not even an American and even don't have relatives there. You are Swedish, so why does that matter to you that much ?