DETROIT - CITY COUNCIL - BROWN AND TATE, FAIL RESIDENTS AND POLICE

To all Detroiters..

Gary Brown, Detroit City Councilman and former Detroit Police Executive, has made numerous - several - deceptive and misleading statements to the media, the latest to radio am950 WWJ / Florence Walton.

He has said, that the uniformed services (ie) Detroit Police Officers (Union) havn't been asked to contribute to lowering the City Budget, false and misleading - The City and DPOA are currently in Act 312 negotiations for a new contract, with the old one long past expired. The City is offering only take backs, pay and medical benefits reductions. Recently, the DP Lieutenants and Sergeants Association lost pay and benefits in an Act 312 decision, causing many to retire and leave this City, and leaving others demoralized. I am retired from the DPD, receiving a duty disability - I have had my medical premiums - raised, since my retirement - that was wrong. I gave to the City with my service and was rewarded with increased medical costs, and life long injuries.

Police Officers have made concessions and continue to protect residents day in and day out, night after night, 24/7 even after being denigrated and taken advantage of by Mayors since Coleman Young, while remaining one of the lowest paid major police departments in the country. Their lives are in danger from the time they wake up until they wake up another day - and it is particularly dangerous for police officers that live in this City.

Gary Brown and James Tate have failed Detroit residents and Detroit Police Officers - they were insiders - they were police executives - they saw the nepotism, cronyism, favoritism and mismanagement (that I have spoken out about for years) up close and personal (Tate told me he was 'left out to the loop' - re: red Navigator) and so they should have been from Day One of their Council careers, had reforms in hand and on the Council table - to improve, repair and upgrade the Detroit Police Department. They have nothing and are failing residents and brave police officers.

Brown and Tate should have made PCs Evans and Godbee (? - unqualified) replace the Crisnet Report System that has complicated and made report writing a lengthy and unproductive report system (Haddad Memo), causing long delays to police response times.

Brown and Tate should have had the Council adopt a 'Verified Response System' to handle false B&E alarms - making profit making alarm companies responsible for the initial check of alarms. DPD have been used for years a security guards for alarm companies. It has cost Detroit $1.2 - 1.5 million dollars a year for the DPD to respond to false alarms. A report was created documenting the need for 'VRS' and the cost of false alarms in 2003. Add up the costs to date. A step has been taken is this process - but it needs to be adopted - now not later.

Brown and Tate should have taken the lead to create a Wayne County / Detroit Police medical - jail facility, which would have put Detroit in compliance with the Department of Justice Decrees, per the Federal Prosecutor. PC Warren Evans blamed PC Bully-Cummings, now we have Godbee and still no compliance and no medical - jail facility.Millions of Detroit taxpayer dollars are being spent on unnecessary and unneeded medical costs for prisoners, who know and take advantage of Detroit's failure to create this facility. A precinct has a midnight prisoner transfer crew, two officers, simply to take prisoners back and forth to Detroit Receiving Hospital. An emergency room doctor, acknowledge the costly service - but DPD executives continue this process - with no reports of costs to the public.

In addition the lack of jail space, created by x-PC Bully-Cummings (closing 50% of jail cells - precincts) leaves Detroit with insufficient jail space for police officers to arrest criminals and puts some back on the street shortly after they are arrested, because of lack of jail space - the streets of Detroit are dangerous enough without criminal - knowing that they can commit crimes and not fear arrest because - 'we don't have a cell for them'. Officers are demoralized, in part, because they can't properly do their jobs.

The Tamara Greene homicide investigation and lawsuit hangs over the City - but their seems no resolution is in sight, what with continued lies and cover ups. To many police executives remain on the job, who have things to cover up and hide - that were part of the Kilpartick police department and the DPD is now led by Ralph Godbee, a hold over and Kilpatrick fund raiser, what police officer would feel safe career wise and safety wise to come forward and divulge information that could resolve the situation?

Detroit needs the best, the brightest, and ethically unchallenged police chief available from a nation wide search - no consideration should be made for race, religion, ethnicity or sexual preference. Brown and Tate should take the lead and appropriate the money for the
search.

Brown and Tate should vigorously oppose an eleven (11) member, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, some elected by districts. The Board is already ineffective and inefficient - adding members is wrong and dangerous to public safety.

Detroit residents deserve better service from its uniformed services, but the solution is in getting better executives and Council members willing to lead - not deceive or to offer up smoke and mirrors

Detroit has lost population to below 713,000 - fact, but the City Council refuse to acknowledge this fact - and the new City Charter fails to understand this - Detroit City Council should be reduced to five (5) members to make it more effective and efficient and to lower their costs to the City. The Charter can provide for seven (7) members if Detroit gains population. Detroit does not need council elected by districts - this will lead to more corruption and not provide better representation - remember those that favored a term limited state legislators - now support a Detroit election by districts, its wrong and Brown and Tate should oppose it.

Brown and Tate should also support a reduction in the number of Detroit Board of Education members - there are too many - now, you see the results of a bloated Board now.

David L. Malhalab
Sgt DPD Retired

FRIENDS OF ROUGE PARK, DETROIT, MICHIGAN

FRIENDS OF ROUGE PARK..

Developing a plan for Rouge Park, the largest park in Detroit.

The one thing I think all friends of Rouge Park can agreen on - is the need to protect residents from potential robbers and rapist - who may use the - open to tresspass, stripped, dangerous and abandoned bathrooms on West Outer Dr at Tireman and another at Dover - they have long been a crime waiting to happen and the City Council has failed to take action to demolsh them, make this a priority in your vision of Rouge Park.

ps. Mike Ilitch, of the Tigers and Red Wings' owes the City up to $12 million dollars for agreements he failed to keep concerning historic Detroit Tiger Stadium. He should spend a million dollars or more - creating new baseball fields throughout Rouge Park. Hopefully, they can reach a sort of - out of court settlement, before Ilitch is indicted. Councilman Ken Cockrel should take the lead, since he told me 'Yes David, your guy (Peter Riley) was right, he (Ilitch) owes the City, the money, and I will do everything I can to get the money back.'

pss. Dave Bing, a Detroit Piston - Hall of Fame Player, should ask Tom Gores to build new basketball courts throughout Rouge Park - he will not move the Pistons to Detroit! So maybe he will make a contribution to the residents who are basketball fanatics.

So here are three suggestions to make Rouge Park better - along with the basics of just cutting the grass.

PASTOR (?) TERRY JONES, DEARBORN - FREE SPEECH

The US Constitution was trampled today...by a Dearborn judge, the Wayne County Prosecutor, and the Mayor of Dearborn, by denying Pastor (?) Terry Jones, of Florida the right of free speech - to protest radical Muslim influence.

The Mayor of Dearborn, John Reilly, embarrassed himself, Dearborn residents - first with an Open Letter and then on Let It Rip, Fox2 News, Friday night, with a disjointed and wrong defense of a misguided attempt to prevent the 1st Amendment - Free Speech of Terry Jones, an ignorant, publicity seeking, fear mongering demagogue, who is using anti Muslim fears to enrich himself, without regards to the consequences. Carl Marlinga made several good comments, including that Homer Simpson is smarter than Jones, and that if Jones was allowed to speak, this media circus would have been over - its not.

How much did it cost($$$)Wayne County, Dearborn to keep Jones, silent - except for the throng of eager news media, who have made him an international phenomenon, a man prevented from speaking about radical Islam, by a US Judge, in a country that promotes free speech, to Mideast countries,and then sent Jones to jail.

Terry Jones, will return to Dearborn and the circus that he began will begin again - this time with even more attention directed at him and those that support and oppose him, not the people of Dearborn and its Muslim residents, but fringe elements willing to exploit the situation and events to further their separate disparate agendas, including but not limited to the Detroit fringe group, By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) that has disrupted school board meetings and other public meetings that don't agree with their goals.

Terry Jones is not a spokeman for Christianity, and I believer Jesus, would have rebuked him for burning the 'Quran' - he is a poor ($$$$) publicity hound who has made his claim to fame - and now is exploiting it (you can donate to him on five (5) different credit cards)and we can't wait to see the next installment, how sad for all of us.

DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY - DETROIT TIGERS OPENING DAY

Public Safety is NOT the #1 issue in Detroit - public safety for Detroit residents was compromised by Opening Day of the Detroit Tigers, owned by billionaire Mike Ilitch, who can afford to pay for private security.....

Three officers were pulled from the Sixth Precinct (NW District) and three officers were pulled from the day shift of the Eighth Precinct (NW District) and sent to Comerica Park, to provide police protection to the large number of suburban residents who attended the Opening Day festivities. Other precincts also contributed officers, the total number is not known - at this time, but at the NW District the six officers would make up three scout car crews that weren't able to respond to 911 calls...multiply that - by all the other precincts and the reason - police officers weren't there to protect Detroit residents is because they were at new non historical ball park.

This situation but to lesser extent will exist all through the Tiger season - as police officers will be assigned to a Comerica Park Baseball Detail, robbing the local precincts of officers needed to respond to 911 calls - from a Department that is already understaffed, with low morale.

ps: Detroit Police Officers still do not have - traffic safety vests, needed to protect them at accident scenes (I requested them as long ago as 1993 - after I was hit by a car at an accident scene, where some officers - upon arrival thought that I was dead, because of the amount of blood, I had lost.

Moonlighting - Detroit Police Officers (2nd Job) is not viable - the Department is too understaffed.

David L. Malhalab
Sergeant DPD Retired

WOLFGANG PUCK - MGM CASINO - DETROIT,

MGM GRAND DETROIT / 4-6-11

DISAPPOINTED..OUTRAGED...WE ORDERED THE APPETIZER CRAB CAKES - EXPECTING TASTEY
EXPERIENCE, INSTEAD WE GOT 4 TINY MORSELS OF CRAB 'CAKES'..
AT A CHARITY EVENT, THEY WOULD BE CONSIDERED HORSDOUERVES, NOT CRAB CAKES - AND THEY WERE SOOO OVERPRICED AT $17.00 TO ADD INSULT. THE MANAGER KEPT INSISTING THAT THEY WERE CRAB CAKES!!! WHEN SERVED THEY WERE NOTHING MORE THAN HORSD'S MY FRIEND SAID THEY WERE MERE MORSELS...THIS ITEM SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM MENU OR GREATLY DOWN PRICED.

THE MUSIC WAS WAY TO LOUD IN THE RESTAURANT BAR AREA - THE MANAGER DID TURN IT DOWN -BUT IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THAT LOUD TO BEGIN WITH - SOMEBODY NOT DOING THEIR JOB...

DESSERTS - YOU SHOULD HAVE A SINGLE PORTION DESSERT - DESSERT OVERPRICED FOR PORTION

DETROIT CENSUS FIGURES - CHARTER COMMISSION - RIGHT SIZE CITY COUNCIL

Memo to: Detroit Charter Commission
CC: Mayor Dave Bing, Detroit City Council

It is now mandatory that the Detroit Charter Commission 'right size' the number of City Council members. The new Census figures show that Detroit has 714,000 people, down from 1,800,000.

For efficiency, economy, and a more effective city government - City Council must be downsized to five (5) members, and it will be reflected in a lower City Council budget, for staff and other miscellaneous items. City residents will be better served without superfluous ego centered council members.

Detroit must bite the bullet - see the truth, and not keep challenging it...Detroit city leaders must make better choices to move Detroit forward and a great first step would be to show that government will not stand in the way and that it recognizes the need to improve and get 'right sized'.

Detroit residents make your voice heard - keep Detroit moving forward don't look back - make Detroit better - starting with City Council. The future is ahead - start the process,with better smaller governance.

David L. Malhalab
Detroit Police Sergeant - Retired

MICHIGAN POT HOLES - MARK ONE, USE TWO HANDS

Mark a pot hole Month....Drivers see a lot of dangerous and vehicle damaging pot holes - well its time to mark them, so that state, county and city officials see them too - and take action to repair them. These at NB - Evergreen at Ann Arbor Trail, don't look bad in photo but are deep tire eating holes, that need to be fixed. If you can safely mark a pot hole - ACO sells an Inverted Marking Paint - do so and then notify your city.
Use 2 (two) hands on the wheel - pot holes can throw your car into another lane, unexpectedly or cause you to swerve - use 2 hands (9 and 3) for better control and safety.
photo credit: David L. Malhalab M News Service / MNS Photo