Posted on 06/15/2020 6:44:26 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Detroit, according to a report, has seen this decade an uptick in crime because of defunding the city’s police department.
The city cut back its police force and funding during a historic bankruptcy in 2014. Funding for the police department has fallen 20 percent in the last six years. Starting salary is $40,000 a year. Wages for cops were cut 10 percent and have never recovered, accounting for inflation. Health benefits for retired cops were stopped and pension payments postponed.
But in Detroit, gutting police department budgets has helped a downward spiral.
“We don't have enough police as it is,” said Rochelle Jones, a working mother of two. “People are acting the fool out here, and now you know the police aren't going to be coming around this summer with all that's going on. So what are the children supposed to do.”
During 80 days of the coronavirus lockdown, 18 children were shot in Detroit.
In the city, there have been 100 homicides so far this year, a 25 percent spike over last year, and there have been 271 non-fatal shootings, an increase of 30 percent.
The crime is a way of life that most residents just deal with as a normal.
India Williams was shot just over five years ago. “All I want from the man who shot me is an apology,” said India, now 12.
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The politicians get richer as the quality of life in the cities deteriorate.
Cowardly republicans can’t even comment on the failed Detroit police dept.... Would be a prefect lead in for how not to shut down the police.....
Embrace the suck.
until people change or demand change, they've made their bed, now lie in it....
Detroit’s population is down almost 2/3 from 1.85m in 1950. As the black population ballooned, whites fled black disorder and crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit
Whites went from 99% of the population in 1910, Detroit’s heyday, to 11% in 2010.
Yes. My grandfather was born in 1910 and lived near Detroit. He said that blacks moved into Detroit from the South during World War II.
“People are acting the fool out here, and now you know the police aren’t going to be coming around this summer with all that’s going on.”
It was about a month ago when people on this site were giving Georgia citizens quaint advice about how to handle crime in their neighborhood: “Call the police! Let the police handle it! Don’t get involved yourself. Let the police handle it!”
Here is the new truth: the police aren’t coming. Not very fast. And not to take risks. And not to keep mobs from burning your place down.
The fast collapse is absolutely stunning.
The dead kids are mostly blacks killed by blacks. So to liberals and the msm - no big deal.
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