DETROIT POLICE DEPARTMENT - REJECTS, CLEMIS PROGRAM

Detroit - Murder Capitol - USA, the most dangerous city in the USA, can't afford $1.2 million for a CLEMIS (Courts Law Enforcement Management Information System) computer system for its police departments officers - who are understaffed, overworked, poorly equipped and under paid ????? (DETROIT NEWS 1/18/13)

Detroit who has a interim Police Chief (Chester Logan) who can't articulate - what adding 1,000 police officers to the Department - would mean, rejected a proposal to join CLEMIS, because the City can't afford it ????????. Detroit which had the lowest hiring standards in Michigan needs 1,000 new officers and to raise its hiring standards, the money for the officers must come from State and Federal Grants. Detroit has paid millions of tax dollars to a so far for a failed DOJ Consent Decree oversight. (1993)

And yet the PC and the Mayor are trying to put more police on the streets, to the detriment of other essential investigative and other police services.

Detroit Police Officers can't properly respond to crimes in progress, crime scenes because of a lack of manpower, equipment and training, - need all the help they can get and adding a computer system that would make them more efficient is essential and proper. Rejecting the CLEMIS shows that the leadership of DPD is lacking. Remember we had a Police Chief and City Council ready to spend $5. million dollars on a silly 'shot spotter' computer system.

Federal Judge Julian Cook, who has been sitting with his eyes closed, for ten years - while presiding over the Department of Justice Consent Decrees should, issue a court order, mandate that DPD join CLEMIS - forthwith, with no excuses or delays - the money that has spent on oversight could have been better spent on the System. Judge Cook must order the Department to hire 1,000 new police officers, and order Federal grants to pay for them.

Detroit Police Officers need all the help that they can get - but the Mayor, City Council and Judge Cook - do not seem to want to make fighting Crime the #1 issue in Detroit. Fiscal Crisis is important but people are dying in the streets and their homes.

David L. Malhalab
Sgt DPD Retired