???? $44+ million dollars for RiverWalk
$25+ million dollars for M1 Light Rail
$$$$+ millions of dollars for People Mover subsidize.
$000 - no dollars, dimes, nickels or pennies for Police and Fire Protection???
Detroit residents - SALVATION IS COMING - those residents who live in fear of crime, been victims of crimes, or who know someones who has been murdered, raped, robbed - Detroit Mayor Bing and the disengenous City Council have placed your SALVATION in your hands - just vote 9 mills ($56 million dollars) and you will have better police protection. It is your choise - more taxes better police protection - or more crime and fear of crime, its your vote...
Well maybe not !!! apparently some on the City Council are having second thoughts, tax more, and risk Detroit residents fleeing the city, due to the high taxes (the highest rate in Michigan)...but still residents are fleeing the City because of the crime rates - murder, robbery, rape - out of control ???? We really don't know because the Chief of Police has closed police precincts, installing 'virtual precincts' breaking a needed point of community-police relations, transferring detectives out of precincts and their files and connection to the community, and making it extremely hard for residents to report a crime
, so the true crime statstics are NOT KNOWN.
Chief Godbee and Rev Jerome Warfield, of the Board of Police Commisioners, are pushing for the tax increase - OMG - then they won't have to get federal and state grants, that they say are unavailable !!! Detroit is a major International Border City - the Department of Homeland Security,and the Department of Justice (Police Consent Decrees) should be pushed to get Detroit more money to protect the border and residents. There was $44 million dollars made available to finish the RiverWalk - $25 million is being considered for the M1 Light Rail System, millions are being spent on subsidizing the People Mover, why can't money be found to fund better police and fire protection - without further taxing Detroit residents, who have an inability to pay - now, let alone with a 9 mill increase.
Why? Why? Why? can't their be a surcharge placed on tickets to the Detroit Tiger, Detroit Red Wing, Detroit Lions games and special events at the Fox and Cobo Hall ???
Billionaires - Mike Ilitch and Willian Ford for years have gotten FREE - police and fire protection at games at publicly funded sports facilities.
Why hasn't Council Ken Cockrel, asked Mike Ilitch for the up to $12 million dollars - he owes the City (Cockrel agrees) for failing to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium, since 1999 to its demolition ??????
Tax Detroit residents - that is the Mayor's and City Councils suggestion - not make those who can pay and who owe the City, to pay !!!
Detroit Police and Detroit Fire Fighters who do a dangerous and difficult job - are demoralized, and discouraged and the City wants another 10% pay cut !
The solution must be Detroit's Mayor and City Council make their case to the Governor, Legislature, President and Congress - that Detroit residents deserve better police and fire protection - and the residents can't pay anymore - and that the crime rate endangers Public Safety and National Security.
Make yourself heard...
David L. Malhalab
Sgt DPD Retired
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
DETROIT BELLE ISLE, GRAND PRIX (ROGER PENSKE)
Rare photo - fallow deer on Belle Isle posed for a photograph - Belle Isle, once a place where thousands held picnics, played and partied has been neglected by Detroit, who no longer can afford to maintain or provide for improvements. While the Mayor and City Council play games to try to maintain control instead of allowing the state to make it a state park, and allow them to make Belle Isle a destination for Detroiters and visitors. Belle Isle has been desecrated by the Grand Prix (Roger Penske) which paved over 10 acres ($7m) and now wants to extend the race track, one half mile more, thus making sightings of the deer even more rare. Detroit has failed to protect a valuable asset, now the state must step in.
photo credit: David L. Malhalab MNS Photo / M News Service
Monday, July 30, 2012
DETROIT - SHAME, DEAD BODIES, HOME INVASIONS, NO POLICE RESPONSE..
SHAME..SHAME...SHAME, on Mayor Dave Bing and Detroit City Council, who have not put public safety, as JOB 1 - #1 Issue in Detroit. Financial stability for Detroit must be found, but JOB 1, should be Public Safety. Detroit residents don't care about financial stability - they care that their families and not found 'Dead in Detroit', that their homes aren't broken in to, that their wives and daughters aren't raped, that they aren't robbed at the local gas station or party store.
"I'm afraid now'..Cynthia Morrison, of Detroit, after her home was broken into for the 13th time, and the thieves just took the doors to her home - and Detroit Police did not respond - because it was not a 'crime in progress'. (Andrea Isom 'Fox2 Detroit).
Police Chief Godbee must be retired or fired !!! He closed Detroit Police precinct stations, instituted 'virtual precincts', transferred detective to from / out of their precincts, and hindered police response times, and responses to crimes. He didn't do this in a vacumn - he did it with the acquiesence of the Mayor and City Council, all share in the SHAME..SHAME..SHAME.. Godbee is NOT RESPECTED by police officers or residents.
Detroit Police Officers are working in a 'war zone', in a dangerous under appreciated job, everyday they face danger and death. They aren't able to do their job to the best of their abilities because the Mayor and City Council have hindered them, discouraged them, demoralized them and still want a 10% pay reduction.
Two suburbanites, Jourdan Bobbish and Jacob Kudla were executed in Detroit - an exotic dancer, from Westland, was just found 'Dead in Detroit', two girlfriends, from Detroit, were found 'Dead in Detroit' there bodies dumped in Detroit, and still the Mayor and City Council are more concerned with the State takeover of Belle Isle, a jewel that has faded, and can't be restored by Detroit.
The Mayor and City Council can't agree on most anything, worried that the Governor, the suburbanites (white) will steal Detroit - take away its jewels - not caring that people are 'Dead in Detroit' - the homicide rate climbs day by day, home invasions (B&Es), armed robberies, carjackings, rapes, go uninvestigated, unreported - Crime is out of control - maybe ??? well we don't know for sure, because Detroit Police can't properly respond to crimes, properly investigate crimes, because precinct stations are closed for 16 hours a day - and 911 operators and 'Telephone Crime Reporting' are overwhelmed with calls - and Detroit Police can't help Detroiters or themselves, because the Mayor and City Council can't understand the effect - crime - is having on Detroiters and its police officers. They haven't made Public Safety #1.
And its not just the police department that is overwhelmed - The Detroit Fire Department just fought 16 - 16 - 16 (sixteen) arson fires on the east side. The DFD is understaffed and without sufficient equipment. The firemen are discouraged and demoralized - and Detroit residents suffer and are victimized and re-victimized, day after day, week after week, year after year.
Detroit Police are understaffed and without sufficint equipment and quality leadership.
Something must be done - the Mayor and City Council can't protect the residents of Detroit - ask Cynthia Morrison, of Detroit, ask any victim of crime in Detroit, not families of high profile crimes, that grab news headlines - ask the victims who don't make the headlines, who have been victims but the police didn't respond because it wasn't a 'crime in progress'...or make a report.
Detroit residents, its police officers and fire fighters deserve better - The Governor must stand up to the Mayor and City Council and make Public Safety - Job 1, put Public Safety as the #1 issue. The Governor must find the money, through state and federal grants for public safety, from the Department of Homeland Security etc..and state grants.
Now is the time - Detroit's reputation will not be restored if people keep being found 'Dead in Detroit'.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
DETROIT - RIVER FRONT SHAME...RIVERSIDE PARK
Shame....Tens of millions of dollars have been spent on Detroit RiverFront, but apparently not a dime (10 cents) on the closed Riverside Park, near the Ambassador Bridge. The park that is being used - has overflowing garbage cans, litter everywhere...broken benches - a disgrace - that should be cleaned up...
Matty Maroun contributed to this SHAME...he should be made to clean up the Park and the Mayor and City Council should - OPEN THE PARK...today
photo credit: David L. Malhalab MNS Photo / M News Service
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
NRA vs. ROMNEY AND OBAMA and the American People
It's time to pass national legislation to - ban the sale of military style assault weapons and high capity magazines, to ban the sale of body armor and large amount of ammunition online. We must close 'loop holes' that allow for sale of guns at 'gun shows' and to evade background checks.
Its time for Mitt Romney and President Obama to unite Republicans and Democrats to pass this legislation before the Presidential elections - to stand up against the National Rifle Association (NRA) and opponents of common sense gun control legislation.
There is NO reason, no animal that a hunter needs a military style assualt weapon (AK 47, AR 15, Tech 9, Uzi etc etc) to kill. There is NO constitutional gaurantee to own a military assault weapon, or to have 100 round high capacity magazines.
No legislation is guaranteed to stop - gun violence or prevent a person who is determined to kill people, but it may begin to change the 'culture of violence', the 'gun culture' that pervades our society - that all we need to protect ourselves is a gun..
The NRA is thee biggest obstacle to a safer America - to safer homes and neighborhoods, so NOW must be the time to stand up - against the NRA and for the American people.
ps:
The National Rifle Association is responsible for 'Operation Gunrunner / Fast and Furious), not President Obama or US Attorney General Eric Holder - the NRA, the all powerful gun lobby, that refuses to cooperate, and intimidates politicians from the White House to your local city council.
The NRA that fails to suggest, support and help get votes for responsible and legitimate - gun control laws, from Washington to state capitols.
The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution was written so farmers would be able to protect their homes, families and their country, in a time, when there was no US Army, no national guard, no FBI, state police or local police - it was farmers against an all powerful England. And those farmers used their guns to kill Native Americans so that they could take / steal their lands.
We may need a gun, especially in Detroit - where gun violence and the lack of the Mayor and City Council to make - Crime / Public Safety, the #1 issue. They have weakend and demoralized the police department and fire department - the two stalwart essential elements to life in Detroit. They have signaled the drug gangs and petty criminals - that we would rather fight among ourselves than to fight crime.
We may need a gun to protect our homes and families, but we DO NOT need to buy military style assault weapons, AR-15s, AK-47s, Tech9s, etc, that can kill a person 550 feet to 2 miles down the street. There is no big game animals that need to be shot with these powerful weapons of WAR.
Indeed the criminals, drug gangs and petty thieves are aided and abetted by lack of responsilbe gun laws - its cheaper to steal them - although its not very expensive to buy them legally or illegally.
We do not need more George Zimmerman's who weren't adequately trained on 'when to shoot' and who are not properly advised of the serious consequences of pulling out - and using a gun.
We DO NOT need - Open Carry Laws - in which macho men and women can parade around with a loaded gun on their hips, just daring someone bigger, stronger or stupider to come 'take it away from me'. I know my rights !!!!
Fast and Furious - started under President George Bush, continued under President Obaman - neither President wanted to endanger the lives of Border Patrol Agents (hell their job - means danger). But something had to be done about the porous US Border that allowed DRUG CARTELS (not just a drug gang) to buy military style assault weapons and every gun made and use them to kill Mexican citzens. They saw the US as a gun free zone - They get guns for free (because they are using our drug proceeds) and take them to Mexico, where anything over a .38 is considered - illegal. But in the US South West - which is fighting for immigration laws - but oppose gun laws to stop Mexican DRUG CARTELS, from buying guns.
American citizens do not need military assault weapons - well maybe, to fight off the crack pot - under educated - poorly socially trained - militia groups - who think training like soldiers, arming themselves like soldiers - make themselves MORE
AMERICAN !!!!
So AMERICA - WAKE UP, don't listen to the NRA - and their bought and paid for politicians, think for your selves - protect you and your family by supporting - responsible,legitimate and practical gun laws for your city, state and nation.
GOD BLESS AMERICA....stop the NRA...
Its time for Mitt Romney and President Obama to unite Republicans and Democrats to pass this legislation before the Presidential elections - to stand up against the National Rifle Association (NRA) and opponents of common sense gun control legislation.
There is NO reason, no animal that a hunter needs a military style assualt weapon (AK 47, AR 15, Tech 9, Uzi etc etc) to kill. There is NO constitutional gaurantee to own a military assault weapon, or to have 100 round high capacity magazines.
No legislation is guaranteed to stop - gun violence or prevent a person who is determined to kill people, but it may begin to change the 'culture of violence', the 'gun culture' that pervades our society - that all we need to protect ourselves is a gun..
The NRA is thee biggest obstacle to a safer America - to safer homes and neighborhoods, so NOW must be the time to stand up - against the NRA and for the American people.
ps:
The National Rifle Association is responsible for 'Operation Gunrunner / Fast and Furious), not President Obama or US Attorney General Eric Holder - the NRA, the all powerful gun lobby, that refuses to cooperate, and intimidates politicians from the White House to your local city council.
The NRA that fails to suggest, support and help get votes for responsible and legitimate - gun control laws, from Washington to state capitols.
The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution was written so farmers would be able to protect their homes, families and their country, in a time, when there was no US Army, no national guard, no FBI, state police or local police - it was farmers against an all powerful England. And those farmers used their guns to kill Native Americans so that they could take / steal their lands.
We may need a gun, especially in Detroit - where gun violence and the lack of the Mayor and City Council to make - Crime / Public Safety, the #1 issue. They have weakend and demoralized the police department and fire department - the two stalwart essential elements to life in Detroit. They have signaled the drug gangs and petty criminals - that we would rather fight among ourselves than to fight crime.
We may need a gun to protect our homes and families, but we DO NOT need to buy military style assault weapons, AR-15s, AK-47s, Tech9s, etc, that can kill a person 550 feet to 2 miles down the street. There is no big game animals that need to be shot with these powerful weapons of WAR.
Indeed the criminals, drug gangs and petty thieves are aided and abetted by lack of responsilbe gun laws - its cheaper to steal them - although its not very expensive to buy them legally or illegally.
We do not need more George Zimmerman's who weren't adequately trained on 'when to shoot' and who are not properly advised of the serious consequences of pulling out - and using a gun.
We DO NOT need - Open Carry Laws - in which macho men and women can parade around with a loaded gun on their hips, just daring someone bigger, stronger or stupider to come 'take it away from me'. I know my rights !!!!
Fast and Furious - started under President George Bush, continued under President Obaman - neither President wanted to endanger the lives of Border Patrol Agents (hell their job - means danger). But something had to be done about the porous US Border that allowed DRUG CARTELS (not just a drug gang) to buy military style assault weapons and every gun made and use them to kill Mexican citzens. They saw the US as a gun free zone - They get guns for free (because they are using our drug proceeds) and take them to Mexico, where anything over a .38 is considered - illegal. But in the US South West - which is fighting for immigration laws - but oppose gun laws to stop Mexican DRUG CARTELS, from buying guns.
American citizens do not need military assault weapons - well maybe, to fight off the crack pot - under educated - poorly socially trained - militia groups - who think training like soldiers, arming themselves like soldiers - make themselves MORE
AMERICAN !!!!
So AMERICA - WAKE UP, don't listen to the NRA - and their bought and paid for politicians, think for your selves - protect you and your family by supporting - responsible,legitimate and practical gun laws for your city, state and nation.
GOD BLESS AMERICA....stop the NRA...
Sunday, July 15, 2012
DEARBORN - DEARBORN HEIGHTS (Mi) - CHILDREN CHEATED
Rossen Reports: Are carnival games cheating you — and your kids? - TODAY Rossen Reports - TODAY.com
Many comments deal with the fact that everyone knows the games are rigged.
Unfortunately, most people don’t people know that billions of dollars are stolen by crooked carnies annually. Law enforcement carnival game experts should agree that the games shown by the NBC “Today” show are either “Theft by Deception and/or illegal “games of chance.”
This particular carnival the “Today” show reported about in Indiana was a North American Midway Entertainment carnival owned by Jeffrey Blomsness and Danny Huston. It was the Marion County Fair in Indianapolis.
Their games were rigged to the extent that winning was practically impossible (confirmed through undercover video by Today show investigators).
This is the same carnival company which allegedly perpetrated no-win fraud and illegal games of chance in the Dearborn Heights Michigan Spirit festival and Dearborn Arab International Festival in Michigan(according to complaints and police reports).
Police (or security) always patrol these carnivals. Tons of cash are “taken” off these games. Police are often paid in whole or in part, and either directly or indirectly, by wealthy carny-owners. Police should start following their oath, doing their jobs, and stop taking money, wrist bands, and Teddy-bears from owners with deep pockets.
Cops need to stop serving and protecting scamming itinerant carny-predators, and put forth an effort to arrest and prosecute these criminals, ripping off trusting children in American towns, each and every year. Keep the faith.
Richard Margittay, Dearborn Police Dept / Retired
Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket - Richard Margittay : Xlibris
Many comments deal with the fact that everyone knows the games are rigged.
Unfortunately, most people don’t people know that billions of dollars are stolen by crooked carnies annually. Law enforcement carnival game experts should agree that the games shown by the NBC “Today” show are either “Theft by Deception and/or illegal “games of chance.”
This particular carnival the “Today” show reported about in Indiana was a North American Midway Entertainment carnival owned by Jeffrey Blomsness and Danny Huston. It was the Marion County Fair in Indianapolis.
Their games were rigged to the extent that winning was practically impossible (confirmed through undercover video by Today show investigators).
This is the same carnival company which allegedly perpetrated no-win fraud and illegal games of chance in the Dearborn Heights Michigan Spirit festival and Dearborn Arab International Festival in Michigan(according to complaints and police reports).
Police (or security) always patrol these carnivals. Tons of cash are “taken” off these games. Police are often paid in whole or in part, and either directly or indirectly, by wealthy carny-owners. Police should start following their oath, doing their jobs, and stop taking money, wrist bands, and Teddy-bears from owners with deep pockets.
Cops need to stop serving and protecting scamming itinerant carny-predators, and put forth an effort to arrest and prosecute these criminals, ripping off trusting children in American towns, each and every year. Keep the faith.
Richard Margittay, Dearborn Police Dept / Retired
Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket - Richard Margittay : Xlibris
Friday, July 13, 2012
CARNIVAL GAMES - CHEAT CHILDREN - NET CARNIES BILLION$$$$$$
Rossen Reports: Are carnival games cheating you — and your kids?
I wrote about Carnival Games - and their fraudulent games that cheat children out of their money.
Carnival Games - reap in Billions of dollars - from the unsusepting carnival goer, usually children, this is disgusting and a Criminal Offense, but you must complain - if you think the games are rigged, let the carnival operators prove to the police that the games are legal.
I wrote about Carnival Games - and their fraudulent games that cheat children out of their money.
Carnival Games - reap in Billions of dollars - from the unsusepting carnival goer, usually children, this is disgusting and a Criminal Offense, but you must complain - if you think the games are rigged, let the carnival operators prove to the police that the games are legal.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
FIREWORKS - MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE, WRONG
The Detroit News ran an editorial on Michigan Fireworks Law - suggesting that 'good intentions' were behind the faulty and dangerous legislation.
"Greed" is NOT a "good intention" (Safety first with fireworks - (Detroit News Editorial - 7/4/12).
I spent years enforcing fireworks ordinances in Detroit and Romulus - risking my career, to protect the public from 'illegal fireworks' - that have an 'inherent danger' to the public, because of the nature and use of 'illegal fireworks'.
Harold Haugh (D-Roseville) and a majority of the Michigan Legislature, put the price on a human life, a childs' finger, hand, eyes at $6 - $10 million dollars in tax revenue (new tax revenue), disregarding the dangers of powerful fireworks, becoming easily available in Michigan. OMG - Michigan residents, no longer have to go South to get dangerous fireworks - now they can go to buy 'fireworks in tents, makeshift booths, and ...previously vacant storefronts...at strip malls and supermarket parking lots all over Michigan'.
Reasonable and sensible limits of setting off fireworks were 'defeated' by the State Senate. So local cities and townships and counties now must bear the law enforcement problems that come with fireworks, without compensation - and the public is placed in danger because of the Legislatures greedy law.
Grand Rapids is reporting 30 - 50 complaints a day...Warren claims children, pets and veterans are being terrorized by pyrotechnics (fireworks). Imagine Detroit Police getting 10x the amount of complaints - 'shots fired' police runs, because residents know that DPD will not respond to fireworks related complaints - so they use the higher priority issue of someone may be shot.
People will always want what they can't have - but at least 'illegal fireworks' was easier to enforce (if it ever was) than the current - let them fire away. There is no constitutional right to buy, possess and to explode - illegal fireworks, and public safety issues should be considered first and exploding fireworks - not.
The Legislature did wrong - they should repeal the fireworks laws - and forego the new tax revenue, in favor of, public safety and peace in the neighborhoods. People have been killed, in Michigan, and in the country, children have had fingers and eyes damaged by fireworks.
David L. Malhalab
Sgt DPD Retired
ps.. The Michigan Legislature should repeal their phony 'anti texting law', which is unenforceable, in favor of, a ban on the use of hand held cell phones / or a ban on distracted driving, again - public safety was not well served by legislative 'smoke and mirrors'.
"Greed" is NOT a "good intention" (Safety first with fireworks - (Detroit News Editorial - 7/4/12).
I spent years enforcing fireworks ordinances in Detroit and Romulus - risking my career, to protect the public from 'illegal fireworks' - that have an 'inherent danger' to the public, because of the nature and use of 'illegal fireworks'.
Harold Haugh (D-Roseville) and a majority of the Michigan Legislature, put the price on a human life, a childs' finger, hand, eyes at $6 - $10 million dollars in tax revenue (new tax revenue), disregarding the dangers of powerful fireworks, becoming easily available in Michigan. OMG - Michigan residents, no longer have to go South to get dangerous fireworks - now they can go to buy 'fireworks in tents, makeshift booths, and ...previously vacant storefronts...at strip malls and supermarket parking lots all over Michigan'.
Reasonable and sensible limits of setting off fireworks were 'defeated' by the State Senate. So local cities and townships and counties now must bear the law enforcement problems that come with fireworks, without compensation - and the public is placed in danger because of the Legislatures greedy law.
Grand Rapids is reporting 30 - 50 complaints a day...Warren claims children, pets and veterans are being terrorized by pyrotechnics (fireworks). Imagine Detroit Police getting 10x the amount of complaints - 'shots fired' police runs, because residents know that DPD will not respond to fireworks related complaints - so they use the higher priority issue of someone may be shot.
People will always want what they can't have - but at least 'illegal fireworks' was easier to enforce (if it ever was) than the current - let them fire away. There is no constitutional right to buy, possess and to explode - illegal fireworks, and public safety issues should be considered first and exploding fireworks - not.
The Legislature did wrong - they should repeal the fireworks laws - and forego the new tax revenue, in favor of, public safety and peace in the neighborhoods. People have been killed, in Michigan, and in the country, children have had fingers and eyes damaged by fireworks.
David L. Malhalab
Sgt DPD Retired
ps.. The Michigan Legislature should repeal their phony 'anti texting law', which is unenforceable, in favor of, a ban on the use of hand held cell phones / or a ban on distracted driving, again - public safety was not well served by legislative 'smoke and mirrors'.
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