Detroit Economic Growth Corporation executives LIED...
DEGC executives lied to the City of Detoit Planning Commission, in regards to, their Tiger Stadium demolition request, and the DPC knew it, and denied their request.
DEGC executive lied to the Corktown Citizens Council.
NO one has held the DEGC accountable.
Many people suspect that the DEGC was doing the bidding of Mike Ilitch, part of a
group of 'wealthy private investors'. There were many proposals to preserve historic
Detroit Tiger Stadium as an entertainment venue, a tourist attraction and a revenue generator for Detroit. George Jackson and the DEGC did not make a decision 'in the best interests of Detroit' nor did they - 'help walk the deals through the complex process of buying city land, crafting creative financing with a web of tax credits and other incentives and otherwise nurturing deals from concept to ribbon cutting'. He, George Jackson (DEGC) made the decision 'to nix the proposals he (Jackson) finds inconsistent with his mission'.
A Detroit Free Press article,by John Gallagher (9/25/11) mentions several redevelopment projects that the DEGC was involved in, since George Jackson's appointment by disgraced convicted felon former X-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, but does not list, if there was any involvement by indicted Kilpatrick contractor Bobby Ferguson, who also is under indictment, as part of the Kilpatrick Mafia. Ferguson it seems was involved in all development and construction projects, under the Kilpatrick regime - Was the DEGC involved with him???
Jackson is quoted by Gallagher as saying "My job is to make a decision that's in the best interests of Detroit". He is now Mayor Bing's point man on the proposed M-1 Light Rail Plan, which is backed by a "group of wealthy private investors helping bankroll the light rail line".
But if Jackson and the DEGC really did 'what was in the best interests of Detroit', he would put the M1 plan on the back burner - and insist that SMART and DDOT merge into one (1) cohesive bus system that truly serves the residents of Detroit and the suburbs. Detroit residents now stand in the cold, wind, rain, snow and hot sun, for the most part without simple bus shelters, for a bus that is sometimes to most times running slow. People have lost their jobs, waiting for a DDOT bus - that is WRONG. Detroit residents need and deserve a modern efficient bus system. They are already subsidizing the out moded, tax subsidized, People Mover and an inefficient bus system - the M1 should be shelved for now, simply because Detroit can't afford it - but if wealthy private businessmen want to take complete control and financial responsibilites - GO FOR IT...
And why is the M1 running up Woodward - when a more productive and prosperous route would be between Detroit and Ann Arbor (home to the University of Michigan, properous Google offices, research companies, and other 21st Century companies). The answer maybe that wealthy businessmen want subsidizes, federal and state grants, to develop properties, they own and will make them, huge profits at public expense.
Apparently George Jackson, a Southfield city resident, after nine (9) years at the DEGC, not to mention 30 years before that - Jackson can't find a home in a wealty Detroit subdivision or an apartment or condo in Detroit, to his liking???? OMG and he professes to want to make decisions in the "best interests of Detroit"
Hopefully the FBI is investigating the DEGC. Detroit deserves better.
What do you think??? No is the time to speak up.
Read - John Gallegher's Cover Story: Jackson known for down-to-earth attitude, Sunday, September 25, 2011.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
ERNIE HARWELL - MICHIGAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME, DETROIT TIGERS
The Inductees into the Mi Sports Hall of Fame should have their plaques hung in a museum at Michigan-Trumbull, which would also house the Ernie Harwell Collection...using a $3.8m Federal grant - and the Mayor and Council should accept Chevrolet's offer to preserve the Tiger Stadium baseball field - that would create a Michigan Field of Dreams - a tourist attraction, and generate money for the City.
The Mayor and Council should exclude George Jackson (who maybe under FBI investigation) and the DEGC from any discussion about Tiger Stadium area use.
The DEGC lied to the Corktown Community Association - telling them that Tiger Stadium
was too dilapidated and unsafe, inside for the group to inspect / tour...
The DEGC lied to the Detroit Planning Commission about Tiger Stadium..
Ken Cockrel told me that Mike Ilitch owed the City - money, for failing to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium per City agreements...Ken Cockrel told me that he would do everything he could to get the money back. One estimate is that Mike Ilitch owes the City up to $12 million dollars...
If it were not for George Jackson, the DEGC and Mike Ilitch - Tiger Stadium - today - would have been a tourist attraction, and entertainment / sports facility that could be producing more revenue to the City, than any costs to the City.
Use the federal grant and the Chevrolet offer to make Tiger Stadium grounds an asset to the City...NOW...
The Mayor and Council should exclude George Jackson (who maybe under FBI investigation) and the DEGC from any discussion about Tiger Stadium area use.
The DEGC lied to the Corktown Community Association - telling them that Tiger Stadium
was too dilapidated and unsafe, inside for the group to inspect / tour...
The DEGC lied to the Detroit Planning Commission about Tiger Stadium..
Ken Cockrel told me that Mike Ilitch owed the City - money, for failing to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium per City agreements...Ken Cockrel told me that he would do everything he could to get the money back. One estimate is that Mike Ilitch owes the City up to $12 million dollars...
If it were not for George Jackson, the DEGC and Mike Ilitch - Tiger Stadium - today - would have been a tourist attraction, and entertainment / sports facility that could be producing more revenue to the City, than any costs to the City.
Use the federal grant and the Chevrolet offer to make Tiger Stadium grounds an asset to the City...NOW...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
DETROIT - SAVE IT, DSYFUNCTIONAL CITY
Detroit is a dysfunctional city - with poor political leadership, a police department with poor leadership, an ineffective city council...can it be saved????
Can Detroit be saved - looking at the newspapers headlines and TV investigative reports, it doesn't look like it can be saved - at this time..
Scott Lewis, of WXYZ / ABC TV, aired a report about the Detroit Pulic Lighting Department and its decaying infrastructure, that injured a city worker - dark streets, light poles with missing covers, light poles that have been knocked over and left, and a underground system that is a danger to employees and residents.
And the City has not done preventive let alone preemptive repair work for year - leaving the city constantly in danger of major power failures.
Detroit is a dsyfunctional city..........
Former Mayor Kilpatrick a curse on the City, got a standing ovation at a book signing at a church in Detroit - leaving suburbanites, city residents and lovers of Detroit to ponder if some Detroiters can ever realize the damage he has done - whether he can 'man up' and take responsibily for his criminal behavior and tell the truth to himself, family and the public. He continually blames, the media, the prosecutor, the judges, and Detroit haters - for his problems, while still lying to his supporters and the public.
Mayor Bing and City Council want to 'move on' but don't realize the City can't move on until the Kilpatrick trials are finished - with years left to go.
Detroit can save itself, if it stands up and realize that after 30 years of bad leadership, it needs to open the City to all who want to contribute - by ending 'local (racial) preferences' in hirings and giving preference to companies who are located in Detroit (creating sham companies) to get City contracts. 'Local preference' has damaged the City by requiring companies to hire Detroit residents, in order to get City of Detroit contracts.
Detroit has a 60+ illeteracy rate, a 60+ plus school dropout rate - Detroit needs to hire qualified people and companies that can contribute to the rebuilding of Detroit.
Detroit has a multitude of problems - including a failed and poor school system etc etc etc - but it can be saved, by being inclusive and that should be the goal.
Can Detroit be saved - looking at the newspapers headlines and TV investigative reports, it doesn't look like it can be saved - at this time..
Scott Lewis, of WXYZ / ABC TV, aired a report about the Detroit Pulic Lighting Department and its decaying infrastructure, that injured a city worker - dark streets, light poles with missing covers, light poles that have been knocked over and left, and a underground system that is a danger to employees and residents.
And the City has not done preventive let alone preemptive repair work for year - leaving the city constantly in danger of major power failures.
Detroit is a dsyfunctional city..........
Former Mayor Kilpatrick a curse on the City, got a standing ovation at a book signing at a church in Detroit - leaving suburbanites, city residents and lovers of Detroit to ponder if some Detroiters can ever realize the damage he has done - whether he can 'man up' and take responsibily for his criminal behavior and tell the truth to himself, family and the public. He continually blames, the media, the prosecutor, the judges, and Detroit haters - for his problems, while still lying to his supporters and the public.
Mayor Bing and City Council want to 'move on' but don't realize the City can't move on until the Kilpatrick trials are finished - with years left to go.
Detroit can save itself, if it stands up and realize that after 30 years of bad leadership, it needs to open the City to all who want to contribute - by ending 'local (racial) preferences' in hirings and giving preference to companies who are located in Detroit (creating sham companies) to get City contracts. 'Local preference' has damaged the City by requiring companies to hire Detroit residents, in order to get City of Detroit contracts.
Detroit has a 60+ illeteracy rate, a 60+ plus school dropout rate - Detroit needs to hire qualified people and companies that can contribute to the rebuilding of Detroit.
Detroit has a multitude of problems - including a failed and poor school system etc etc etc - but it can be saved, by being inclusive and that should be the goal.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
IHOP - NATIONAL GUARD, ASSAULT WEAPONS KILL - NRA WRONG, GUN REGS NEEDED
Michigan Open Carry Law - is wrong...
The Second Amendment does not guarantee that every citizen can carry a gun - this Amendment was written in the 1791 - 220 years ago, when war weary American's were afraid of the British, French, Canadians, Germans, Native Americans - there was no US Army, no organized militias, no state police, no local police, you had to protect your family and home by yourself, by any means necessary, it was a dangerous times.
This is a contentious issue, 220 years later - now the United States has a standing Army,National Guard, FBI, Border Patrol, state and local police etc etc etc, crime is on the rise and fear mongers are every where, disguised as politicians, private citizens, and opportunists ready to stir up trouble and make money.
Carrying a gun is a dangerous and serious undertaking and should only be done by trained professionals - I would not prevent a person from possessing a gun - in the home - or the use of it to protect the home and family, but to take the gun onto the streets - must be strictly regulated, and so should the registration and purchase of guns / weapons. {note: you are more likely to kill a family member, in the home, husband, wife, children, that a burglar}.
I am a retired Detroit Police Officer and spent eight weeks - training, shooting and learning the law on 'when to shoot'...currently to obtain a CPL, it takes eight (8) hours of supposed training to pass a required course. I have a CPL, I have been properly trained to carry a weapon and know 'when to shoot'...
I do not know all of the provisions of the Open Carry Gun Law, but restrictions include areas that a gun may not be carried open or concealed by the public, which presents, to me a 'clear and present danger' to the public at large - guns cannot be carried onto 'pistol free zones': school property, college campuses, bars, restaurants, sports arenas, churches - so a person with a lawful permit has to store the gun in their vehicle - an unsafe place to secure a gun of any kind, considering the number of breaking and entering's to motor vehicles, and especially dangerous, if other people know that a location is where - gun carrying people congregate.
The National Rifle Association is and has been irresponsible in opposing common sense laws, concerning the registration and ownership of guns - and most especially assault style weapons, most recently used to kill National Guard personnel in an IHOP, in Nevada, and responsible for hundreds of deaths in the US, Mexico and around the world. There is no need for a US resident to own a military assault weapon.
Michigan has experienced no upsurge in shootings because of 'open carry' or the easing of getting a CPL, but neither has there been a decrease in crime - but a gun, in the hands of an insufficiently trained person is a threat to the general public.
The Second Amendment does not guarantee that every citizen can carry a gun - this Amendment was written in the 1791 - 220 years ago, when war weary American's were afraid of the British, French, Canadians, Germans, Native Americans - there was no US Army, no organized militias, no state police, no local police, you had to protect your family and home by yourself, by any means necessary, it was a dangerous times.
This is a contentious issue, 220 years later - now the United States has a standing Army,National Guard, FBI, Border Patrol, state and local police etc etc etc, crime is on the rise and fear mongers are every where, disguised as politicians, private citizens, and opportunists ready to stir up trouble and make money.
Carrying a gun is a dangerous and serious undertaking and should only be done by trained professionals - I would not prevent a person from possessing a gun - in the home - or the use of it to protect the home and family, but to take the gun onto the streets - must be strictly regulated, and so should the registration and purchase of guns / weapons. {note: you are more likely to kill a family member, in the home, husband, wife, children, that a burglar}.
I am a retired Detroit Police Officer and spent eight weeks - training, shooting and learning the law on 'when to shoot'...currently to obtain a CPL, it takes eight (8) hours of supposed training to pass a required course. I have a CPL, I have been properly trained to carry a weapon and know 'when to shoot'...
I do not know all of the provisions of the Open Carry Gun Law, but restrictions include areas that a gun may not be carried open or concealed by the public, which presents, to me a 'clear and present danger' to the public at large - guns cannot be carried onto 'pistol free zones': school property, college campuses, bars, restaurants, sports arenas, churches - so a person with a lawful permit has to store the gun in their vehicle - an unsafe place to secure a gun of any kind, considering the number of breaking and entering's to motor vehicles, and especially dangerous, if other people know that a location is where - gun carrying people congregate.
The National Rifle Association is and has been irresponsible in opposing common sense laws, concerning the registration and ownership of guns - and most especially assault style weapons, most recently used to kill National Guard personnel in an IHOP, in Nevada, and responsible for hundreds of deaths in the US, Mexico and around the world. There is no need for a US resident to own a military assault weapon.
Michigan has experienced no upsurge in shootings because of 'open carry' or the easing of getting a CPL, but neither has there been a decrease in crime - but a gun, in the hands of an insufficiently trained person is a threat to the general public.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
9/11/01 - YELLOW RIBBON, Another 'DAY OF INFAMY'
9/11/01...Another 'Day of Infamy'...after members of Claudia Duff's family got word that she survived and escaped the collapse of the Twin Towers, in New York, after terrorists flew airplanes into them - they put a yellow ribbon around the maple tree in her front yard, on Appleton street, in Dearborn Heights.
photo credit: David L. Malhalab M News Service / MNS Photo (313 580 2393)
Friday, September 2, 2011
DETROIT CRIME - DPD OFFICERS' SPEAKS OUT
David Malhalab, who retired from the Detroit Police Department in 2005 after 21 years of patrolling some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, said putting more officers on the street will have little effect if the department takes away from other vital resources.
"You need police officers in the precincts; you need detectives," Malhalab said. "What good is having 50 extra cops on the street and only two detectives? The reports generated by the patrol officers go to the detectives, and if there aren't enough detectives, those reports will pile up on somebody's desk and the crimes will never get solved."
"You've got to have good community relations, but you can't have that with a dysfunctional city," Malhalab said. "If the residents have a streetlight out in their area, they need to see someone come turn that on. If not, they lose faith in the city — which means they lose faith in the police."
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110902/METRO01/109020387/Detroit’s-deadliest-neighborhood#ixzz1Wqy1PwFr
please read and leave a comment / email it on..........David malhalab 313 580 2393
INFORMATION FROM A DETROIT POLICE OFFICER - ACTIVE:
Hey David,
Just a couple tid bits on the "Inside Out" crap that I have been working since it started....
It is all for show... I say add some horses and hulu hoops and you have a great little act going on. Here are some facts about it.
Yes it is officers that normally have an inside job. Some of us havent been off the street for but a few months (and I have almost 16 years of patrol.) Others have been off of the street for 10 or 15years.
Does anyone realize the things that have changed in that amount of time? The dept scrapes together the bottom of the barrel cars for us to use because they are so short of cars regular patrol officers need the "working" ones. So now you have a car. It is not equipped with a computer, camera or mics (the camera is DOJ mandated for ALL patrol function cars.) And if you do have a computer the officers that have been off of the street have no clue what CAD (computer aided dispatch) is or even have a sign on for LEIN anymore.
Next you have new laws. Then they are taking officers from the west side of the city and putting them on the east side. These officers all come from the same district so unless you have worked over there you now have two officers in a car that have no clue what so ever.
The Lt. that is running the circus gives you a map that you cannot read even if you have a magnifying glass. Now you would think we would be able to go out and talk to people but when you are on the east side where they say all of the shootings are happening and you have no clue where you are going because the street lights are out, you have no clue where the drug houses or the "bad" guys even hang out. I say this, I think I have been a pretty damn good street cop in all of my years, but I am still alive because I have some smarts and common sense. This leads to NO common sense what so ever.
And the numbers are bull crap. We have had around 10 cars out there. He takes us to one area on 7 mile for an hour to "do traffic." Then an hour later we are moved to another little strip of seven mile.
They have changed our hours numerous times. During the 12 hour shifts we had to work days because most of us come back and have an "early" shift to work the next day. Here is an example of what they do to me and a lot of other officers. I have to work it on Wed's. I have to be at the precinct early to change and get a car and be out of the precinct by 6:45pm.
I then go to the east side for a 1/2 hour role call so they can blow smoke somewhere to try and convince us if we don't produce then we will lose our jobs that they think are so great (putting us in another precinct on another shift etc.) Then we "do what we are told" and go back to the precinct by 3am. I get home about 4am. Go figure, because I normally work 7am~3p. (I do have a son and work this shift for a reason.)
Then I am suppose to either come back at 7 a or change my shift hours because they said we could have "flex time" when the heck did the city start using flex time? SO then for 2 days out of 5 my schedule is all messed up and alot of my work gets shoved aside waiting for me to catch up on.
Now I have 4 days to do 5 days worth of work and the day after my "Inside Out" I am so exhausted that I can't completely focus.
A couple weeks ago (after inside out had been going for about 2 1/2 weeks there was a commander that went to one of the comp stat meetings who spoke up and said that the crime has only decreased (he happens to work on the east side) only .04% since inside out was there!!! So what is inside out doing? Nothing but screwing with officers who are working very hard to get the city in compliance with DOJ crap! (Yes we work on A LOT of DOJ stuff. And YES inside out is messing with our work.
We have plenty of younger rookie officers who are probably willing to work a little OT or 30 series or Tac Mobile or lets try bring out SRT and the tank to these areas. Not officers who have other jobs or have advanced their career beyond the street.
Any questions??? lol
ps: These comments and more that I have heard, confirm what I have been saying for years: The Detroit Police Department has failed leadership !!!. It cannot properly protect the residents of Detroit nor its own officers. Detroit needs new respected nationally recruited leadership - a New Police Chief, not associated with the nepotism, favoritism, and cronyism that has been a cancer on the Department for over 30 years. Detroit residents and police officers deserve better...
Now is the time to stand up and Demand Better...read and leave a comments...DLM
"You need police officers in the precincts; you need detectives," Malhalab said. "What good is having 50 extra cops on the street and only two detectives? The reports generated by the patrol officers go to the detectives, and if there aren't enough detectives, those reports will pile up on somebody's desk and the crimes will never get solved."
"You've got to have good community relations, but you can't have that with a dysfunctional city," Malhalab said. "If the residents have a streetlight out in their area, they need to see someone come turn that on. If not, they lose faith in the city — which means they lose faith in the police."
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110902/METRO01/109020387/Detroit’s-deadliest-neighborhood#ixzz1Wqy1PwFr
please read and leave a comment / email it on..........David malhalab 313 580 2393
INFORMATION FROM A DETROIT POLICE OFFICER - ACTIVE:
Hey David,
Just a couple tid bits on the "Inside Out" crap that I have been working since it started....
It is all for show... I say add some horses and hulu hoops and you have a great little act going on. Here are some facts about it.
Yes it is officers that normally have an inside job. Some of us havent been off the street for but a few months (and I have almost 16 years of patrol.) Others have been off of the street for 10 or 15years.
Does anyone realize the things that have changed in that amount of time? The dept scrapes together the bottom of the barrel cars for us to use because they are so short of cars regular patrol officers need the "working" ones. So now you have a car. It is not equipped with a computer, camera or mics (the camera is DOJ mandated for ALL patrol function cars.) And if you do have a computer the officers that have been off of the street have no clue what CAD (computer aided dispatch) is or even have a sign on for LEIN anymore.
Next you have new laws. Then they are taking officers from the west side of the city and putting them on the east side. These officers all come from the same district so unless you have worked over there you now have two officers in a car that have no clue what so ever.
The Lt. that is running the circus gives you a map that you cannot read even if you have a magnifying glass. Now you would think we would be able to go out and talk to people but when you are on the east side where they say all of the shootings are happening and you have no clue where you are going because the street lights are out, you have no clue where the drug houses or the "bad" guys even hang out. I say this, I think I have been a pretty damn good street cop in all of my years, but I am still alive because I have some smarts and common sense. This leads to NO common sense what so ever.
And the numbers are bull crap. We have had around 10 cars out there. He takes us to one area on 7 mile for an hour to "do traffic." Then an hour later we are moved to another little strip of seven mile.
They have changed our hours numerous times. During the 12 hour shifts we had to work days because most of us come back and have an "early" shift to work the next day. Here is an example of what they do to me and a lot of other officers. I have to work it on Wed's. I have to be at the precinct early to change and get a car and be out of the precinct by 6:45pm.
I then go to the east side for a 1/2 hour role call so they can blow smoke somewhere to try and convince us if we don't produce then we will lose our jobs that they think are so great (putting us in another precinct on another shift etc.) Then we "do what we are told" and go back to the precinct by 3am. I get home about 4am. Go figure, because I normally work 7am~3p. (I do have a son and work this shift for a reason.)
Then I am suppose to either come back at 7 a or change my shift hours because they said we could have "flex time" when the heck did the city start using flex time? SO then for 2 days out of 5 my schedule is all messed up and alot of my work gets shoved aside waiting for me to catch up on.
Now I have 4 days to do 5 days worth of work and the day after my "Inside Out" I am so exhausted that I can't completely focus.
A couple weeks ago (after inside out had been going for about 2 1/2 weeks there was a commander that went to one of the comp stat meetings who spoke up and said that the crime has only decreased (he happens to work on the east side) only .04% since inside out was there!!! So what is inside out doing? Nothing but screwing with officers who are working very hard to get the city in compliance with DOJ crap! (Yes we work on A LOT of DOJ stuff. And YES inside out is messing with our work.
We have plenty of younger rookie officers who are probably willing to work a little OT or 30 series or Tac Mobile or lets try bring out SRT and the tank to these areas. Not officers who have other jobs or have advanced their career beyond the street.
Any questions??? lol
ps: These comments and more that I have heard, confirm what I have been saying for years: The Detroit Police Department has failed leadership !!!. It cannot properly protect the residents of Detroit nor its own officers. Detroit needs new respected nationally recruited leadership - a New Police Chief, not associated with the nepotism, favoritism, and cronyism that has been a cancer on the Department for over 30 years. Detroit residents and police officers deserve better...
Now is the time to stand up and Demand Better...read and leave a comments...DLM
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