Public Safety is NOT the #1 issue in Detroit - public safety for Detroit residents was compromised by Opening Day of the Detroit Tigers, owned by billionaire Mike Ilitch, who can afford to pay for private security.....
Three officers were pulled from the Sixth Precinct (NW District) and three officers were pulled from the day shift of the Eighth Precinct (NW District) and sent to Comerica Park, to provide police protection to the large number of suburban residents who attended the Opening Day festivities. Other precincts also contributed officers, the total number is not known - at this time, but at the NW District the six officers would make up three scout car crews that weren't able to respond to 911 calls...multiply that - by all the other precincts and the reason - police officers weren't there to protect Detroit residents is because they were at new non historical ball park.
This situation but to lesser extent will exist all through the Tiger season - as police officers will be assigned to a Comerica Park Baseball Detail, robbing the local precincts of officers needed to respond to 911 calls - from a Department that is already understaffed, with low morale.
ps: Detroit Police Officers still do not have - traffic safety vests, needed to protect them at accident scenes (I requested them as long ago as 1993 - after I was hit by a car at an accident scene, where some officers - upon arrival thought that I was dead, because of the amount of blood, I had lost.
Moonlighting - Detroit Police Officers (2nd Job) is not viable - the Department is too understaffed.
David L. Malhalab
Sergeant DPD Retired
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