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I'd guess that calls for certain areas are responded to promptly. (Just not the ones with all the poor people)

So incredibly sad
And the City is so broke, there is no way out.
No way out.

I feel so sorry for any decent human being stuck in Detroit

I was just out in Detroit a few weeks ago.

It was very sad.

Bright side: had a friend who moved there. They were able to get a home that was ridiculously huge and amazing, for very, very cheap. Now they just need to hire some guards.

Just depends how much disposable income a person has. A call coming from a manor will produce several units responding, no doubt. They should test that (i know it's illegal but afaik it's only a fine to do false 911 call, small price to pay....)

I think I missed this episode of The Wire. Which season is this?

The first line and last lines probably gave this whole thing away, paraphrasing:

Lady: "I just got my housed robbed...again!"

Anchor: "From a city that can't afford to fix it"

Common crime and no money for a police force == last in line to be checked.

The common police man, like the ones sent over, they're just pawns in the game like you and are probably waking up each morning wondering if they'll have a job by the end.

That doesn't inspire you to be the best cop you can be and I don't buy that they need to be supremely motivated just for the sake of society, it's still a job and people need security (no pun intended).

It's a bad situation being managed by morons who need to protect their own pockets before the people they're supposed to care for. Nobody wins except them.

*comedy too.

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Upvote for detectives dusting for prints and finding Charlie LeDuff's prints ALL OVER her place. "Ma'am, we have a suspect."

Detroit should setup a police academy where trainees from all over the country would go to get on-the-job training to fight real crime. Kinda like hospitals have unpaid internships.

Or Hollywood could just buy Detroit, and film all zombie/apocalypse/zombie-apocalypse movies there.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

From what I've read, Detroit really is a dying city - even though they've made a big effort to attract high-tech businesses to the down town. What happens when a city like that basically disappears? Time to bring in Robocop.

The time for OCP is now, delta city is the future!

They only come and they come when they wanna!!

LOVE the fact he says "Burgled" at 5:19. Awesome.

This man has been here before. I don't think i can declare related, but I'll opt for humiliation then someone else can do it for real:
related=http://videosift.com/video/Boondoggle-in-the-Motor-City-Detroits-Train-to-Nowhere

Most people in Detroit are decent. And I would say most of them don't feel stuck there, they just want the problems fixed.

I live in a city south of Detroit, we're called "little detroit" and it's starting to show, although no where NEAR as bad as Detroit itself. It's quite sad really, I lived in Royal Oak Mi (north of the D) for 2 years and hated it there (for different reasons).

I live in Windsor, the Canadian city just across the river from Detroit... I've been witness to the sad decline of the city for my entire life, but it has recently reached just jaw-dropping proportions. Detroit is just an ugly city in a lot of ways and I think it must have been unpleasant to be in even at its height.

The people in the suburbs think they've escaped, but the reverse is more likely to be true in the long run as gas just keeps getting more expensive. That's why the M-1 light rail line is a good idea: precisely because transportation infrastructure for a focused, coherent urban core is more viable over the long term than continuing to build out a sprawling suburban road network that no one will be able to afford to use in a world where gas costs $10 or $20 a gallon. The suburbs will fail in their turn, and everyone who doesn't go elsewhere will move back into the city core where at least you won't spend half your income just travelling back and forth to get your groceries. (Once they get around to building any grocery stores in the city, that is.)

Anyone interested in Charlie LeDuff should check out his book:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811520-detroit

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Boondoggle-in-the-Motor-City-Detroits-Train-to-Nowhere

Boondoggle in the Motor City: Detroit's Train to Nowhere has been added as a related post - related requested by aaronfr.