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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 02:52 PM Mar 2013

Cases kicked to curb

Source: The Grosse Pointe News

Brad Lindberg
March 28, 2013

THE GROSSE POINTES — Staff cuts in the county prosecutor's office are causing some police to chase their tails more than criminals.

SNIP...

Stagnation results from the Wayne County executive on Monday, March 18, laying off 22 assistant prosecuting attorneys, three investigators and a clerical staffer in the office of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.


SNIP...

Hence, Farms Detective Lt. Richard Rosati's dead-end phone calls throughout Tuesday, March 19, to the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice.

"I called the prosecutor's office three times to confirm if a warrant had been sent down," Rosati said. "Two times, the phone was answered hastily and put on hold. No one ever came back to me. The third time, nobody answered."

Read more: http://www.grossepointenews.com/Articles-News-i-2013-03-28-249340.114135-Cases-kicked-to-curb.html



GOP government, in flagrante delicto.

No money from Washington. No money from Lansing. No money from Detroit, where the GOP governor just appointed a nice, corporate friendly Emergency Financial Manager means crooks get away, just like on Wall Street and Washington and Dallas and Houston.
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villager

(26,001 posts)
2. Interesting -- so 1%ers who want to militarize the police and criminalize the majority
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 03:00 PM
Mar 2013

..of citizens (while both parties cooperate in the dismantling of the 4th Amendment) forgot they still had to actually fund the instruments of oppression!

Oops!

 

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
3. Wayne County is under review for an Emergency Financial Manager just like Detroit I heard this
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 03:27 PM
Mar 2013

morning...

redqueen

(115,096 posts)
4. Wow. "Kicked to curb" is in the headline...
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 03:42 PM
Mar 2013

Anyway, yeah of course he didn't respond to an interview request. He knows his supporters don't care, and he doesn't care about anyone else.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
6. Obviously they don't understand.....
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 03:55 PM
Mar 2013

...how government gets increased revenues by giving tax cuts to the wealthy, duh.

- Slow learners.....

K&R



"All our beliefs are being challenged now, and rightfully so; they're stupid." ~Bill Hicks

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
7. "crooks get away, just like on Wall Street"
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 04:00 PM
Mar 2013

Last edited Thu Mar 28, 2013, 08:05 PM - Edit history (1)

Like Leonard Cohen says in his song, Everybody Knows



Welcome to trickle-down injustice into Dystopia.

 

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)
8. Apparently, some of the local police agencies are asking the public to provide more assistance:
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 05:58 PM
Mar 2013
The investigation into a series of burglaries in Grosse Pointe Shores and in Grosse Pointe Woods continues as the list of victims grows. Fingerprint and handprint evidence gathered at the most recently burglarized homes have been sent to the Michigan State Police crime lab.

As detectives await the results, which could take a while, they are urging residents in the pair of neighboring cities to be aware of what's happening next door and to report anything suspicious immediately.

Detective Lt. Scott Rohr said the key factor in reporting suspicious circumstances is time. Reports made immediately allow officers to potentially interrupt the suspicious activity and determine what exactly is happening, whereas waiting to report something or someone as suspicious will only prevent officers from determining any answers, he explained.
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Residents are urged to call 911 to report suspicious circumstances and are asked to do so immediately, which Rohr said is the biggest way the community can help in the investigation.

http://grossepointe.patch.com/articles/burglaries-continue-in-grosse-pointe-shores-woods


That ought to do it.
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