Danger.....clear and present ...Danger...
The 8th police precinct bldg is a clear and present danger to Detroit school children and residents. It is in much worse shape than reported by Florence Walton of WWJ radio. There are broken windows with jagged pieces of glass ready to fall on anyone looking or going inside... the front doorway of the 8th precinct is open to trespass as is windows that are broken out - that can also provide entrance to the bldg..that appears ransacked....police paperwork is strewn in the lobby...the second floor detective bureau windows are broken out.. as is virtually every window in the precincts garage...desks - tables - typewriters are have been tipped over - collecting dust and surely vermin lurk in this place of refuge for them...any person - child - malcontent who has a grudge against police can go in and get a modicum of revenge ...glass can fall and kill a child,in a second or they could slip and fall inside - die - and no one would know...
This did not happen overnight or within the last week...has no city employee or city official noticed the continuing damage and desecration of this place that provided work and safe haven for Detroit residents and visitors... The Mayor and Police Chief need to be halled into Blight Court, fined and made to be locked up in the closed jail cells and made to serve their time there...where prisoners no longer are held - where citizen groups no longer meet, where police officers no longer work to protect residents and visitors...where detectives no longer work to solve crimes and work to prevent crimes...where frightened victims of crime can seek refuge and help...
Detroit deserves its ranking as 'thee #1 most dangerous city in America' because the Mayor and Police Chief closed police precincts - doubled up police officers in police stations not designed or capable of holding twice the number of police and their equipment...of closing jail cells - so that police officers can not lock up some criminals (and criminals know that)...of leaving police stations open to trespass and destruction...the DOJ (is a convenient excuse - for jail closings) but tell that to a victim - violated by a criminal who should be in a city jail, but who roams free..free to commit crimes because their is no space at the 'police district lock ups'....and because the patrol areas are too large to properly and timely patrol and respond to a call for help...or to catch a thief, murderer, robber or rapists...We have seen jail cell bars strewn on a vacant lot - as the 5th precinct was torn down - no more jail cells to hold prisoners. The 13th precinct will become a restaurant (?) as if Detroit had too many jail cells and tooooo few criminals / prisoners.
This is the state of the Detroit Police Department - which for years I have tried to get the media to investigate these conditions - and which they have turned a blind eye, voice and ear...where have all the muck raking, investigative journalists gone - gone far away from Detroit... reportedly 35% percent of news is not reported because it will hurt the 'bottom line' - the revenue of a news agency - what a disgrace...
Detroit has been hurt by its political leadership and its blind, deaf and dumb news reporters...Its time things change....NOW IS THE TIME...TO DO THE RIGHT THING...
David L. Malhalab Sgt...DPD..Retired
ps...safety of Detroit residents and visitors should be a concern of all suburban cities - for crime no longer knows or recognizes boundaries...safety in Detroit can lead to safety in the suburbs....
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