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

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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