DETROIT DANGER ZONE...BASIC POLICE ENFORCEMENT

Re: DETROIT DANGER ZONE...FREE PRESS APRIL 15, 2012

Where - Danger to children...is within 100 yards of Murphy Middle School which is connected to Eliza Howell Park N, is prostitution, narcotic use and sales, illegal dumping, illegal deer killing, etc etc...in Detroit's most vulnerable Westside neighborhood. A Park that I was tasked to help clean up, as a Sixth Precinct Park Ranger, with two other officers and then 3 more officers (6 total). Now none.

Now the Park is abandoned by the City, its despite efforts by former owner (family) Ken Cheyne to take back the Park and clean it up and make it a neighborhood asset. His efforts were killed by his rejection of a Kilpatrick 'pay to play' offer. The Park has reverted back to its lawless history, due to lack of police patrols, now allowing anything goes, again.

If Detroit is to have safe neighborhoods it has to due some basic law enforcement - stop the sale of illegal narcotic paraphernalia, narcotic sales in and around party stores, gas stations, dollar stores etc, stop the sale of expired food, stop the sale of illegal fireworks, stop the sale of cigarettes and liquor to minors. I did all this - as a one man police car unit - it can be done, but Detroit is failing to due it, because of fear of backlash from Arab merchants. I placed my career in danger to do this. It must be done - now. If I was still working I would be still doing this enforcement.

A dollar store, in Warrendale, had 13,000 crack pipes for sale, and more that I wasn't able to find per an informant. In the Fourth Precinct minors were selling liquor to minors at a party store, and sale to minors was rampant. In the Sixth Precinct nearly all gas stations, party stores, dollar stores were given tickets for these above listed violations of the law - and this amounts to a betrayal of the residents of Detroit.

Stopping these crimes - not major in rank - but pervasive and infecting every neighborhood in Detroit, would go a long way to making streets safer for families and school children.

Its time to - Just Do It....

David L. Malhalab