911 IS A JOKE: Detroit citizens no longer rely on police as self-defense killings skyrocket (MI)

informationliberation.com ^ | 7 February, 2012 | MARA GAY

[donaldo]

Detroit - the paradigm of liberalism, run by liberal Democrats, with a liberal Democrat agenda, with liberal Democrat results. The only difference between Detroit and Washington D.C.? Obama can print IOUs.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6!

[PapaBear3625]

there was a documentary made about it in the 80s, I think it was called “Robocop” or something similar.

I remember Robocop. The street criminals were all white, and were being paid by an evil corporation to do lots of crimes so the corporation could take over.

[PapaBear3625]

The number of justifiable homicides, in which residents use deadly force in self-defense, jumped from 19 in 2010 to 34 last year — a 79 percent rise — according to newly released city data.

Thirty four justifiable homicides are not going to get the attention of the criminal class. Thirty four THOUSAND might.

[PapaBear3625]

Michigan has castle doctrine. If an old woman is attacked by a young thug, especially in her house, she is not going to jail.

[Little Ray]

I hope the do a good job and set high standards for other private security companies!

[Daffynition]

I hope to join your *club* ...but it's not exactly the kind of carry I want to do when driving through Massachusetts on my way to VT, NH, ME.....otherwise you'll see me on the evening news surrounded by a SWAT team.!

[Daffynition]

I hear ya...similar incidents here too. Our latest outrage is that these prima donnas are earning $60-80K/year...easily pulling in double that in OT and padding their years before they retire on the final *average* of their last three years of employment. Thieves.

[Hot Tabasco]

This article may have already been posted. It seems familiar to me.

A similar article was posted a day or two ago but it gave some weird statistics that I couldn't come to grips with. This is a new one and thanks for posting it.....

FWIW, I spent almost 35 years at my plant which was about 2 miles from that Chalmers/Jefferson area......

[CodeToad]

From 19 to 34 and we’re all supposed to get excited about that?

[Ladysmith]

If Michigan doesn’t have Castle Doctrine similar to Texas, they should get on it and pass one. Give the residents more ways to protect their own.

[Hot Tabasco]

For every person there who owns a weapon and knows how to use it, how many are unarmed and helpless?

That's a very good point because the majority of them are elderly who have no means in which to sell their homes and move out of the city. They're stuck there.......

[Hot Tabasco]

Apparently even back then Detroit was too awful to make a movie in

FWIW, they've been making movies here for the past several years........and Gran Tourino was filmed here.

[Chickensoup]

Would it be safe to say these people are protecting themselves from a certain ethnic population that is causing 90% of the problem?

The same ethnic population that is responsible for the bulk of the non self defense shootings?

Or would that be racist?
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sounds like the ethnic population is protecting itself from ethnic preditors. Blacks are the most frequent victims of black crime.

[aragorn]

...it's not exactly the kind of carry I want to do when driving through Massachusetts on my way to VT, NH, ME

No kidding. Having once lived in NH, and having moved both to and from NH from OK, I understand your caution. I do have a photo of me somewhere giving the "Welcome to MA" sign a field expedient "Flying Fickle Finger of Fate" award as I was leaving the state on my way back to OK...

New England is certainly a beautiful place which has a lot of interesting and important history, and I have a lot of friends there, but (some) folks in MA sure seem to have a funny idea about how things ought to be. They are welcome to it, as long as they don't try to inflict it on the rest of us.

[mo]

“Violent crime settled into the city’s bones...”

The Lamestream Media never quite get it right....

“Liberal Democrat Politics settled int the city’s soul..”

is quite probably the money statement.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Worse. It’s racist to even ask if it would be racist.

[Impy]

“Idiocracy” predicts a likely future.

[max americana]

We had a major accident months ago which was 5 blocks away from them and they only showed up 2 hours after...the neighbors were pissed.

The nightclubs I know of on Hollywood don’t even bother to call them and have their own security handle it as they are known to show up more than an hour after 911...even though Hollywood Blvd is 4 blocks away from them. They’re pretty much hated in the neighborhood.

[yoe]

Instead of ‘touring’ the nation in AF2 ranting about Obesity, actually selling Obamacare, Ms. Obama would spend the taxpayers $$$$s better if she were to shed some light on obeying the Law!