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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:01 AM Original message |
Detroit police routinely underreport homicides - Actual '08 total gives city worst rate in nation |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
1. Population: 1,027,974 |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 02:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
23. Detroit hasn't had a million people for a long while now. Currently 900,000 or less. nt |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 08:40 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Thanks. Makes sense. Lotsa people going where they |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
2. remember the movie "Escape from New York"? Some of America's..................... |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:28 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Have you considered you CAN'T do anything in those places? |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I really never care when flack people kill each other. |
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shawn703 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:53 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Self delete |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:45 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Gentrification works |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:47 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Ugh.... |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Actually, only about 54% of SF residents are white: |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 12:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Yeah... |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Apperenly you are only walking through the white parts of town |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 12:23 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Thus the definition of gentrification... |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. "Bad part of town" or "the other side of the tracks", yeah, there were............. |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:48 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. No... |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:58 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. That is a super gross over-simplification. What about Newark, Memphis, Gary? |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 12:01 PM Original message |
Newark has been a nightmare since I grew up in |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Newark has been a nightmare since I grew up in |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 08:42 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. Memphis is one scary town |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 01:16 AM Response to Reply #16 |
33. Gary was built as a steel town |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 12:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Why did people get to that point though? |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 12:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Decades? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 02:19 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Not the ones I owned.. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 01:05 AM Response to Reply #19 |
32. When you're talking '70s and early '80s and the auto industry |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:54 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. After spikes of murders in specific areas, SF and Oakland flooded them with cops |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. Major part of your post: "flooded them with cops." |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 08:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
26. I think you don't know either New York or Los Angeles well. |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:02 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. actually, new york is relatively safe |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 05:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
35. Shit Man and I thought Cholon was bad at night. |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
3. Does anyone else remember the Malace Green case in Detroit |
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shawn703 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:54 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Yes |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
4. as if that wasn't enough, now this |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
24. "Robocop" takes place in a future Detroit setting |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
29. There is a reason they call it Murder City |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
30. I have a slightly weird story from Detroit |
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lostnfound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 03:51 AM Response to Original message |
34. One of my pet peeves is that 'murders and murder cases solved' numbers |
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