DETROIT POLICE RESTRUCTURING.. THE TRUTHS

DETROIT RESIDENTS DESERVE THE TRUTH....
DETROIT POLICE DEPT - NEEDS LEADERSHIP...NO POLITICAL - PUBLIC RELATIONS GARBAGE...

TRUTHS:

You should not - cannot restructure the Police Department with tainted / failed leadership tied to past administrations.

Detroit Police - first and foremost - need more police officers, no restructuring will compensate for lack of police officers (bodies). To get more - they need State and Federal grant money. The Mayor and City Council should go to Lansing and Washington as much as necessary to secure the grants.

Detroit Police - need - a new Police Chief, selected in a real nationwide search, for the best and brightest available person. NOW not later. This should be a priority.

Not 'everybody with a badge and a gun' - should be patrolling the streets, Detroit needs police officers in police Sstations servicing the public / residents. Detroit needs police officers - responding to crime scenes, making reports, collecting evidence and showing residents that police officers are concerned about them. Detroit needs its detectives in local precincts - investigating and solving crimes (not patrolling the streets).

Detroit Police Department needs to QUIT - the DOJ Consent Decrees! Judge Cook and US Attorney Levin have failed since 2003 to get compliance. The Feds then will have to look at the DPD and see how to fund reforms and how to make the DPD viable to serve residents. Police Officers and millions of dollars have been diverted to this effort, while hundreds of Detroit residents have DIED, been shot, robbed and raped - the money could have been used more effectively and the Consent Decrees are not worth the death of more Detroiters.

DPD needs a Gang Intelligence Unit - not Gang Squad, police officers should be trained to recognize gang members, signs etc, making every officer Gang knowledgeable and use the GIU to collect and disperse current gang related information - to all officers.

Finally - all members of the DPD should be speaking out to the Media - letting the public know - what is going on inside the Department and their recommendations for fixing the problems - that effect them, and their families.

Detroit Police Officers work hard every day - They are doing their best to protect the residents of Detroit, it is the political leaders, the Mayor, the City Council and poor police executives that are failing Detroit residents and responsible solely for the high crime rate and homicide rate.