Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is thinking of ways to restore residency for public safety employees, police, fire, ems - he is wasting his time - that shipped has sailed, that train has left the station. State Law and Detroit's failure to include that demand in ACT 312 negotiations over 10 years ago - and the mass exodus of black and white police officers, firefighters and EMS techs should have shown the Mayor the truth about Detroit - its unsafe for City employees and their families, to live in Detroit.
Police Officers are especially vunerable to living and working in Detroit, because if they take police action - their families maybe endangered. If they lived in a neighborhood - their neighbors knew it - and so did the criminal element. Their neighbors would expect the 'neighborhood' police officer to help solve neighborhood problems - placing police officers families in danger if they helped or didnt help.
Detroit Police Officers - black and white - fled the City because it was unsafe for their families and because the Detroit School System is such a complete failure. Any reasonable person who has the means and the ability to move out of Detroit will do so to protect their families, and police officers were most vunerable.
Mayor Bing should concentrate on raising the standards for police applicants - raise the minimun hiring age to 21, raise the educational requirement to two (2) years of college (AA degree), and stricter criminal and driving background checks.
Bing should also, make sure the police and fire departments have better equipment - police officers should not be driving cars with 100,000 miles, with non working radios, sirens, and emergency lights. They shouldn't have to jump start their cars to begin patrol.
Bing should make police officers welcome in the City and should stand behind them - with good pay and support.
Bing should demand the Detroit Public School Board hold itself to a higher standard and demand that it work with Robert Bobb to improve the school system.
Public safety employees will move back to the City when its streets are safe and its school system educates its students by national standards - not before and they should not be asked or required too.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
MIKE 'LITTLE CAESARS' ILITCH - PISTONS, RED WINGS, TIGERS - NOT GAMBLING TOO
It is time someone stands up to Mike and Marian Ilitch - time to stop them from buying the Detroit Pistons and to investigate their mixing of gambling money and pro sports money.
Ilitch took up to $12.million dollars from Detroit and its taxpayers to maintain and secure Detroit Tiger Stadium. Ilitch failed to live up to the agreements to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium, and by doing so it led to the 'demolition by neglect' of historic Detroit Tiger Stadium and its ultimate demolition, which could have been an entertaiment venue that brought in millions of dollars to the City.
Marian Ilitch owns a gambling casino - Motor City Casino - and is negotiating to own more in Ohio and Indiana...professional sports do not mix well with gambling and owners with gambling interests - should not be allowed to own a professional or semi-pro sports team.
Didn't Detroit Red Wings favorite, Darren McCartey list a $50,000 debt to Motor City Casino in his bankruptcy filing? Didn't pro basketball players, Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan admit a gambling problem???
Hopefully the National Basketball Association will do what Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League failed to do - stand up to Mike and Marian Ilitch and say - its either pro sports team ownership or gambling casinos - not both.
For all those who are devotees, idolators, who can't admit that the Ilitchs' have done wrong - or have done nothing that haven't netted them more than they invested - and this includes sports writers and sports columnists - remember A(Adolph) Alfred Taubman, a billionaire - went to jail for cheating the public - rich people, not poor Detroiters though.
So be among those who want the Ilitchs' held accountable - its either pro sports or gambling - not now not ever both.
Ilitch took up to $12.million dollars from Detroit and its taxpayers to maintain and secure Detroit Tiger Stadium. Ilitch failed to live up to the agreements to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium, and by doing so it led to the 'demolition by neglect' of historic Detroit Tiger Stadium and its ultimate demolition, which could have been an entertaiment venue that brought in millions of dollars to the City.
Marian Ilitch owns a gambling casino - Motor City Casino - and is negotiating to own more in Ohio and Indiana...professional sports do not mix well with gambling and owners with gambling interests - should not be allowed to own a professional or semi-pro sports team.
Didn't Detroit Red Wings favorite, Darren McCartey list a $50,000 debt to Motor City Casino in his bankruptcy filing? Didn't pro basketball players, Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan admit a gambling problem???
Hopefully the National Basketball Association will do what Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League failed to do - stand up to Mike and Marian Ilitch and say - its either pro sports team ownership or gambling casinos - not both.
For all those who are devotees, idolators, who can't admit that the Ilitchs' have done wrong - or have done nothing that haven't netted them more than they invested - and this includes sports writers and sports columnists - remember A(Adolph) Alfred Taubman, a billionaire - went to jail for cheating the public - rich people, not poor Detroiters though.
So be among those who want the Ilitchs' held accountable - its either pro sports or gambling - not now not ever both.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
DETROIT 187 - REVIEW EPISODES 1 AND 2
EPISODE 2 - GRADE C+
Detroit 187....episode 2 is a whole lot better than pilot..... a C+
The thrill of seeing Detroit venues - doesn't make a successful show...
They continue to make the homicide cops look bad / stupid - arresting the brother with force in a restaurant (with no "PROOF" ) - he went to work even after his brother was killed, because he needed money...if he knew about insurance policy he would have been at home or a bar drinking grey goose....
They let Goat go...even though he may have had motive - because they had no "PROOF"..
they could have taken him in for questioning...and he wouldn't have been killed
Fitch - goes it alone to arrest a possible homicide suspect - and again stands in front of the door waiting to get shot - the suspect may have seen him drive up...
and trying to clean up the shooting of his partner - instead of letting it go - it was poorly written - and something that should not have happened..
And professionals may have mispronounced Polish names - but would have not made fun -
and would have apologized - asking for correct pronunciations...oh i am forgetting this was part of the 'humor' - i just keep missing the 'humor'
It got better....but not enough to make a national audience leave - Good Wife or Parenthood - I think....
EPISODE 1 - GRADE C
Once the Detroit visuals fade into the story, and everyone is thrilled to see Detroit landmarks on TV - you are left with the story, and Detroit 187 is just an average cop show - whether anyone watches it, beyond the first episode depends on what is on other channels.
OMG...people may like Detroit 187...but from police standpoint its embarrassing and to think, a DPD Lieutenant is a consultant....????
We dont use Captain rank - that is basic ...
Police 101 - don't stand in front of a door you want to enter...especially with a homicide suspect possibly inside
No supervisor would let a PO go into a barricaded gun man situation - no way,
and if ERU - was there they would have shot the guy when he lowered the shotgun..
Throwing up??? dpd officers would have seen numerous homicides as PO - by the time you get to homicide...you shouldn't wouldn't do that....(maybe because of stench from old dead decomposing body - but not homicide).
And NEVER would you unhandcuff a homicide suspect in a hall way !!! a cop shot - that was embarrassing makes DPD look like stupid homicide investigators...AND AND
a cop get shot because of this - critically shot - that's not right.
I hope the show is a success for Detroit - $25 mill is a good investment - but I hope they tighten up the scripts and make it more realistic - while still being entertainment - but stupid is stupid and that is not entertaining or good for Detroit PD...
PS: if someone had done some 'pre search' Detroit doesn't use '1 8 7' to refer to homicide (California term) a better title - Detroit Squad 7...but that time has passed, but it seems if you are going to base a story in a city - you would use local terms...
what do you think??? leave a comment
Detroit 187....episode 2 is a whole lot better than pilot..... a C+
The thrill of seeing Detroit venues - doesn't make a successful show...
They continue to make the homicide cops look bad / stupid - arresting the brother with force in a restaurant (with no "PROOF" ) - he went to work even after his brother was killed, because he needed money...if he knew about insurance policy he would have been at home or a bar drinking grey goose....
They let Goat go...even though he may have had motive - because they had no "PROOF"..
they could have taken him in for questioning...and he wouldn't have been killed
Fitch - goes it alone to arrest a possible homicide suspect - and again stands in front of the door waiting to get shot - the suspect may have seen him drive up...
and trying to clean up the shooting of his partner - instead of letting it go - it was poorly written - and something that should not have happened..
And professionals may have mispronounced Polish names - but would have not made fun -
and would have apologized - asking for correct pronunciations...oh i am forgetting this was part of the 'humor' - i just keep missing the 'humor'
It got better....but not enough to make a national audience leave - Good Wife or Parenthood - I think....
EPISODE 1 - GRADE C
Once the Detroit visuals fade into the story, and everyone is thrilled to see Detroit landmarks on TV - you are left with the story, and Detroit 187 is just an average cop show - whether anyone watches it, beyond the first episode depends on what is on other channels.
OMG...people may like Detroit 187...but from police standpoint its embarrassing and to think, a DPD Lieutenant is a consultant....????
We dont use Captain rank - that is basic ...
Police 101 - don't stand in front of a door you want to enter...especially with a homicide suspect possibly inside
No supervisor would let a PO go into a barricaded gun man situation - no way,
and if ERU - was there they would have shot the guy when he lowered the shotgun..
Throwing up??? dpd officers would have seen numerous homicides as PO - by the time you get to homicide...you shouldn't wouldn't do that....(maybe because of stench from old dead decomposing body - but not homicide).
And NEVER would you unhandcuff a homicide suspect in a hall way !!! a cop shot - that was embarrassing makes DPD look like stupid homicide investigators...AND AND
a cop get shot because of this - critically shot - that's not right.
I hope the show is a success for Detroit - $25 mill is a good investment - but I hope they tighten up the scripts and make it more realistic - while still being entertainment - but stupid is stupid and that is not entertaining or good for Detroit PD...
PS: if someone had done some 'pre search' Detroit doesn't use '1 8 7' to refer to homicide (California term) a better title - Detroit Squad 7...but that time has passed, but it seems if you are going to base a story in a city - you would use local terms...
what do you think??? leave a comment
GODBEE - DETROIT DESERVES BETTER..BING WRONG
Mayor Bing has committed another error of judgement, in appointing Ralph Godbee, as Detroit Police Chief.
Godbee should have been disqualifed and replaced, after revelations of a text/sex scandal with Lt. Monique Paterson, who was having an affair with then Police Chief Warren Evans, who was having an affair with Patterson. Godbee is a married man.
Godbee also, has been tainted with fund raising efforts involving the DPD, for disgraced felon Mayor Kilpatrick.
Bing should make public, the seven (7) candidates that he said were considered for the job, because he claimed he would conduct a 'national search' and because there are reports that NO national search was conducted. Bing should also, make public his criterion for police chief.
Bottom line - Detroit and Detroit police officers deserve better - Crime should be the number one issue - and having a respected, honest, ethical police chief is not to much to ask - except maybe in Detroit.
ps: another view
Badseed#14 said...
Response to Patricia (the original one) 9/20/10, 10:07 AM.
One of the primary reasons the Detroit Police Department suffers is that they keep recycling the same leaders. Most organizations that have been plagued with corruption or bad leadership make corrections by replacing the entire leadership that was in place during the time of the corruption (i.e. the entire police command staff during the Kilpatrick Administration).
September 21, 2010 1:39 PM
Godbee should have been disqualifed and replaced, after revelations of a text/sex scandal with Lt. Monique Paterson, who was having an affair with then Police Chief Warren Evans, who was having an affair with Patterson. Godbee is a married man.
Godbee also, has been tainted with fund raising efforts involving the DPD, for disgraced felon Mayor Kilpatrick.
Bing should make public, the seven (7) candidates that he said were considered for the job, because he claimed he would conduct a 'national search' and because there are reports that NO national search was conducted. Bing should also, make public his criterion for police chief.
Bottom line - Detroit and Detroit police officers deserve better - Crime should be the number one issue - and having a respected, honest, ethical police chief is not to much to ask - except maybe in Detroit.
ps: another view
Badseed#14 said...
Response to Patricia (the original one) 9/20/10, 10:07 AM.
One of the primary reasons the Detroit Police Department suffers is that they keep recycling the same leaders. Most organizations that have been plagued with corruption or bad leadership make corrections by replacing the entire leadership that was in place during the time of the corruption (i.e. the entire police command staff during the Kilpatrick Administration).
September 21, 2010 1:39 PM
Monday, September 20, 2010
DETROIT'S NEW POLICE CHIEF -
NEW DETROIT POLICE CHIEF....NOT GODBEE ??
Is Detroit a 2nd Class City, an afterthought?
Bing failed to conduct a national search for police chief - as promised - Why???
Gary Brown, Detroit City Councilman, says NO ONE wants the job of Detroit Police Chief. He has no confidence that if a national search had been really conducted, that NO ONE of stature would have applied? How wrong is that????
John Bennett, Detroit Police Officer (WWW.DETROITUNCOVERED.COM) has his sights set too low for a new Detroit Police Chief and that has been, and is a problem, that must be overcome, if Detroit Police Department is to become respected by the community and an effective crime fighting community orientated department.
Hiring standards must be raised: age to 21, education level to two (2) years of college, no misdemeanor of felony convictions, and a clean driving record. There are racists who would oppose this, claiming Detroit couldn't recruit black applicants or that black applicants would be excluded, and only white applicants would be hired - foolish - Detroit would recruit at colleges and black applicants will come to Detroit Police Department. Diversity would be served and an educated police officer is the best policy against citizen complaints.
We need a nationally respected police chief - not tied to the politics, nepotism, croynism, favoritism, that has plagued the department for over 30 years. A clean break from the past - the new chief must be the best and brightest that can be found. The new chief must be given free reign to change, improve and upgrade the department from recruits to the executives who will help him recreate a respect and admired police department.
The chief must not report to a deputy mayor - but only to the Mayor himself, and work with the city council.
Detroit must go to Washington, DC and get grant money and federal aid - Detroit cannot reform itself without federal money to train - new and veteran officers, and to give them the equipment and tools to be effective in the 21st Century.
Detroit will only become a great city, with improved police, fire, EMS services and good schools - that is the foundation for a renewed city. It is time to Go for It.
Bing has not conducted a National Search for Police Chief -
Ralph Godbee should not be the new Detroit Police Chief, under any circumstances. He is a product of the nepotism, favoritism, cronyism and inbred culture that has plagued the Department for 30 years.
Was Chief Joseph E. Thomas, of Southfield, asked (Dennis Archer's first choice), Chester Logan, Steve Dolunt, Nate Topp, or any of the Bully-Cummings firees..?
Is Detroit a 2nd Class City, an afterthought?
Bing failed to conduct a national search for police chief - as promised - Why???
Gary Brown, Detroit City Councilman, says NO ONE wants the job of Detroit Police Chief. He has no confidence that if a national search had been really conducted, that NO ONE of stature would have applied? How wrong is that????
John Bennett, Detroit Police Officer (WWW.DETROITUNCOVERED.COM) has his sights set too low for a new Detroit Police Chief and that has been, and is a problem, that must be overcome, if Detroit Police Department is to become respected by the community and an effective crime fighting community orientated department.
Hiring standards must be raised: age to 21, education level to two (2) years of college, no misdemeanor of felony convictions, and a clean driving record. There are racists who would oppose this, claiming Detroit couldn't recruit black applicants or that black applicants would be excluded, and only white applicants would be hired - foolish - Detroit would recruit at colleges and black applicants will come to Detroit Police Department. Diversity would be served and an educated police officer is the best policy against citizen complaints.
We need a nationally respected police chief - not tied to the politics, nepotism, croynism, favoritism, that has plagued the department for over 30 years. A clean break from the past - the new chief must be the best and brightest that can be found. The new chief must be given free reign to change, improve and upgrade the department from recruits to the executives who will help him recreate a respect and admired police department.
The chief must not report to a deputy mayor - but only to the Mayor himself, and work with the city council.
Detroit must go to Washington, DC and get grant money and federal aid - Detroit cannot reform itself without federal money to train - new and veteran officers, and to give them the equipment and tools to be effective in the 21st Century.
Detroit will only become a great city, with improved police, fire, EMS services and good schools - that is the foundation for a renewed city. It is time to Go for It.
Bing has not conducted a National Search for Police Chief -
Ralph Godbee should not be the new Detroit Police Chief, under any circumstances. He is a product of the nepotism, favoritism, cronyism and inbred culture that has plagued the Department for 30 years.
Was Chief Joseph E. Thomas, of Southfield, asked (Dennis Archer's first choice), Chester Logan, Steve Dolunt, Nate Topp, or any of the Bully-Cummings firees..?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
WWJD - IGNORE - CRACKPOT, PASTOR TERRY JONES
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO ????
He would probably ignore the crackpot masquarading as a Christian - Pastor Terry Jones, of Florida, with a following of less than 50 people, in his effort to gain media celebrity status, by threatening to burn the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an.
He would castigate the news media, for making Jones a media celebrity for threatening a despicable act - for giving the crackpot natioanl and international media attention and creating an immediate threat to US troops, tourists and foreign
US residents.
The US has any number of crackpots, lunatics, media wannabees, but we should not give attention to them to the point of making them and their causes a local or national concern.
There are numerous ways to protest the tragedy of 9/11 - ways to remind people of those lost, but also to remind people that we are the USA - and that we tolerate crack pots, lunatics and media wannabees - but do not celebrate them.
The news media has a responsibility to report the news, not create the news, so they should drive away their satelite trucks, put away their cameras and notebooks and let Porter, live in obscurity, now after his 15 minutes of fame.
So Terry Jones, you have had your day - don't endanger US lives any longer, humbly
withdraw your notice to burn the Qur'an, and think of WWJD...
He would probably ignore the crackpot masquarading as a Christian - Pastor Terry Jones, of Florida, with a following of less than 50 people, in his effort to gain media celebrity status, by threatening to burn the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an.
He would castigate the news media, for making Jones a media celebrity for threatening a despicable act - for giving the crackpot natioanl and international media attention and creating an immediate threat to US troops, tourists and foreign
US residents.
The US has any number of crackpots, lunatics, media wannabees, but we should not give attention to them to the point of making them and their causes a local or national concern.
There are numerous ways to protest the tragedy of 9/11 - ways to remind people of those lost, but also to remind people that we are the USA - and that we tolerate crack pots, lunatics and media wannabees - but do not celebrate them.
The news media has a responsibility to report the news, not create the news, so they should drive away their satelite trucks, put away their cameras and notebooks and let Porter, live in obscurity, now after his 15 minutes of fame.
So Terry Jones, you have had your day - don't endanger US lives any longer, humbly
withdraw your notice to burn the Qur'an, and think of WWJD...
Monday, August 23, 2010
DETROIT UNCOVERED - INTERIM CHIEF GODBEE..
www.detroituncovered.com - clip and paste and read the context of this post...
PO John Bennett writes it and has taken punishment for it...suspended for years,without pay - for speaking out about the Detroit Police Department and its problems...
"This double standard is why our (Detroit police) department will never get it's act together nor get back to being respected." anon
"The Chief is supposed to lead by example. Have you forgotten the Code of Ethics? His situation has shown how hipocritical he and the rest of the administration is and has been." anon
"We are dealing with not only the departmental issue but the Moral issue. If you accept this situation than your obviously too far gone and certainly have not been introduced to that higher standard most have been subjected to at any Trial Boards." anon
"Why so much support for this slimeball Godbee? Is the city so hard up for a Chief? This is your website, J.B., but your support for some is puzzling." anon
The above published comments - show what a divisive issue Godbee has become.
On Let it Rip (Fox2Detroit.com - Aug 12), I said that Godbee should not be the face of the Detroit Police Department. His relationship with Patterson, disqualifies him from being Chief of Police.
It may not be illegal, as Tracey Henry and Charlie Langton said, but it is morally and ethically wrong! - that is why Bing should remove Godbee as Chief of Police.
Detroit is the butt of too many jokes, it has lost respect in many areas, its reputation is hurting the City - nationwide and Godbee is part of the problem and must be removed - now.
For years, I wrote in the Tuebor (DPOA newpaper) about the problems within the Department and my suggested solutions - no one seemed to want to address them - so the Department went from bad to bad to bad as Police Chief after Police Chief failed its officers and residents.
Nepotism, Favoritism, and Cronyism has infested the Department since I joined in 1977. It is a disease that has to be cured - and - the only way is to have a National Search to find a nationally respected and ethically unchallenged police chief. It will not be easy - and concessions to the new chief will have to be made - in terms of autonomy, and his ability to make the necessary changes to make the Detroit Police Department a respected police department.
Detroit has had to many inbred police chiefs - too many who took care of themselves and their favorite people - too many that have committed crimes and adultery!
Godbee was not the first.
It is time for Bing to rise to the occasion - to spend the money, take the time to find a man or woman who can lead the Detroit Police Department to national recognition for its efforts in all aspects of policing - a Chief who can command respect nationwide, of its own police officers and residents.
If you comment on this - please have the courage to use your name.
Detroit needs thinkers and doers - people who 'speak truth to power' and whose names are attached to their speech / comments.
You can also comment on my blog space -
http://davidmalhalab.blogspot.com
PO John Bennett writes it and has taken punishment for it...suspended for years,without pay - for speaking out about the Detroit Police Department and its problems...
"This double standard is why our (Detroit police) department will never get it's act together nor get back to being respected." anon
"The Chief is supposed to lead by example. Have you forgotten the Code of Ethics? His situation has shown how hipocritical he and the rest of the administration is and has been." anon
"We are dealing with not only the departmental issue but the Moral issue. If you accept this situation than your obviously too far gone and certainly have not been introduced to that higher standard most have been subjected to at any Trial Boards." anon
"Why so much support for this slimeball Godbee? Is the city so hard up for a Chief? This is your website, J.B., but your support for some is puzzling." anon
The above published comments - show what a divisive issue Godbee has become.
On Let it Rip (Fox2Detroit.com - Aug 12), I said that Godbee should not be the face of the Detroit Police Department. His relationship with Patterson, disqualifies him from being Chief of Police.
It may not be illegal, as Tracey Henry and Charlie Langton said, but it is morally and ethically wrong! - that is why Bing should remove Godbee as Chief of Police.
Detroit is the butt of too many jokes, it has lost respect in many areas, its reputation is hurting the City - nationwide and Godbee is part of the problem and must be removed - now.
For years, I wrote in the Tuebor (DPOA newpaper) about the problems within the Department and my suggested solutions - no one seemed to want to address them - so the Department went from bad to bad to bad as Police Chief after Police Chief failed its officers and residents.
Nepotism, Favoritism, and Cronyism has infested the Department since I joined in 1977. It is a disease that has to be cured - and - the only way is to have a National Search to find a nationally respected and ethically unchallenged police chief. It will not be easy - and concessions to the new chief will have to be made - in terms of autonomy, and his ability to make the necessary changes to make the Detroit Police Department a respected police department.
Detroit has had to many inbred police chiefs - too many who took care of themselves and their favorite people - too many that have committed crimes and adultery!
Godbee was not the first.
It is time for Bing to rise to the occasion - to spend the money, take the time to find a man or woman who can lead the Detroit Police Department to national recognition for its efforts in all aspects of policing - a Chief who can command respect nationwide, of its own police officers and residents.
If you comment on this - please have the courage to use your name.
Detroit needs thinkers and doers - people who 'speak truth to power' and whose names are attached to their speech / comments.
You can also comment on my blog space -
http://davidmalhalab.blogspot.com
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