Murder in Detroit.....
It started for me, in 1974, when the Detroit Police Department, failed to hire me - despite passing all the tests and meeting the requirements, because I lived in Dearborn Heights. I was hired finally, in September of 1977, discrimination that faced me and before me - black officers, and women under past Mayors.
It started (for me - again) in Detroit in 1980, with the layoff of 1,100 police officers, by Mayor Coleman A. Young, after the DPOA won (?) an Act 312 victory. Young was going to show the DPOA 'who was the boss' - so he cast off 1,100 police officers for five (5) years, ruining their lives and putting Detroit residents in the cross hairs of death. Detroit became the national 'Murder City'.
And the criminals saw the smoke signal, saw the star in the north and started to use
Detroiters, as their criminal piggy bank, if they needed money - take it, there weren't enough police officers to stop them. Guns and death ruled the streets, and Young still persisted in showing that ' I am the Boss ' - blaming the DPOA (the home of the 'white army of occupation' and greedy cops). Detroit did not recall the officers until 1985.
Coleman Young hated police officers black or white - he called black officers 'psychopaths' who would do violence to their own people. He called white officers 'and army of occupation' - thus poisoning public perception of hard working police officers, working in a 'war zone' - in one of America's most dangerous cities. Young fueled the disrespect and lack of community support for police officers.
The Detroit Police Department is now down to less than 700,000 residents and there is only; 2,103 police officers (94 below budgeted), 73 investigators, 454 sergeants (29 below budgeted), 102 lieutenants. The City Council is still holding court with nine (9) council persons, and their bloated staffs - Detroit needs more police officers and less council persons ! DPD is losing more than 30 officers a month through retirements.
Mayor Bing has agreed to an early retirement plan for Detroit police officers, which will damage and destroy needed experience and trained officers facing a rising murder and crime rate. Residents don't believe PC Godbee (64% of Detroiters don't - unscientific poll) when he talks about Detroit crime rates declining. The agreements with the DPOA / LSA and DPDCOA will do nothing to retain officers or motivate them to do more, in this dangerous City. It is a counter productive agreement - that does more harm than good.
Detroit needs a Mayor to hire the best and brightest Police Chief in the nation - and a PC who will stop the 'virtual precinct' program, stop the transfer of investigators (detectives) to a central location, get rid of a bad report system - Crisnet, get needed jail space and to reduce the waste of millions of dollars in prisoner medical costs - and more....
Detroit faces a budget crisis - a specter of an Emergency Financial Manager - but Detroit residents face worse - murder in their neighborhoods and homes, crime in the streets and a dysfunctional City government.
Detroit needs help - who is going to answer the call????
David L. Malhalab
Sergeant DPD Retired
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
DETROITERS DON'T TRUST POLICE CHIEF...CRIME STATS
Cann4 runs...means old old runs that need to be answered ??? David
I have to say you are right on this one... we still have the list of CANNED runs that get answered hours later (maybe) and by then of course no on is there to make the report. I go to a lot of calls and they say "well I called the police before and you guys never came." I ask if they came to the station to make a report and they say "NO!" - active dpd po
Mayor Bing...says DPD officers respect Chief Godbee...WHAT DO YOU THINK....DLM
Warrendale (Detroit) Blog
64.2% of Detroiters Don't Believe Chief Godbee
Detroit's Police Chief Ralph L. Godbee, Jr. issued a statement on Friday, January 13 in which he declared that, while Detroit's homicide rate had gone up by 12% in 2011, our overall crime rate had actually gone down by 8%. I, of course, put aside the obvious question of wondering whether or not one might be tempting fate by making a major
announcement on a Friday the 13th. Instead, I asked if anyone believed Chief
Godbee's claim that crime was down overall in Detroit.
I asked this question on Google Plus, Facebook, and Twitter as well as in person at a variety of establishments throughout Detroit. In all, a total of 106 Detroiters answered my question as to whether or not they believed that crime really was down in our city. My completely
unscientific polling found:
7 Detroiters (6.6% of respondents) said they
believed Chief Godbee that crime really was down in Detroit in 2011 in
comparison to the year before without any further clarification;
31 Detroiters in my sample (29.2% of
respondents) indicated that they believed that crime
was only down because of a declining population; and
68 Detroiters (64.2% of respondents) said that
they did not believe Chief Godbee's claim at all.
I have to say that it does not bode well for Mayor Dave Bing nor Chief Godbee when such a large group of Detroiters indicate that they do not believe the Detroit Police Department's
official crime statistics. Official statistics, after all, are supposed to becomprehensive, objective, and credible. When a solid majority of Detroiters don't believe them, it is indicative of a larger problem within the
Bing Administration, in my opinion. My personal opinion, in the interest of disclosure, is that Detroit has likely seen a significant drop in the number of crimes that have been reported to police. However, since my sources tell me that almost 30% of calls to 9-1-1 do not yield a response, the fact remains that there is a large amount of crime in Detroit that never makes it into our crime statistics. Unless those individuals who called 9-1-1, but did not get a police officer to show up when one was needed, took the time to go to a police station and file a report then the crime that they called 9-1-1 to report would have never made it into our statistics.
It seems highly doubtful, to me at least, that someone who wasn't able to get a response to a 9-1-1 call would take the time to file another report. Therefore, we likely have thousands of additional crimes in our city that aren't included in the official statistics. The most likely
conclusion, in my estimation, is that our true live of crime in Detroit was up in 2011; not down.
I'm confident that Chief Godbee and Mayor Bing will disagree with me on this. Of course, if they could make it so that Detroit police officers showed every time that they're needed and did so in a timely manner then we would likely have a better picture of what is really happening on our streets. Frank.Nemecek@gmail.com
I have to say you are right on this one... we still have the list of CANNED runs that get answered hours later (maybe) and by then of course no on is there to make the report. I go to a lot of calls and they say "well I called the police before and you guys never came." I ask if they came to the station to make a report and they say "NO!" - active dpd po
Mayor Bing...says DPD officers respect Chief Godbee...WHAT DO YOU THINK....DLM
Warrendale (Detroit) Blog
64.2% of Detroiters Don't Believe Chief Godbee
Detroit's Police Chief Ralph L. Godbee, Jr. issued a statement on Friday, January 13 in which he declared that, while Detroit's homicide rate had gone up by 12% in 2011, our overall crime rate had actually gone down by 8%. I, of course, put aside the obvious question of wondering whether or not one might be tempting fate by making a major
announcement on a Friday the 13th. Instead, I asked if anyone believed Chief
Godbee's claim that crime was down overall in Detroit.
I asked this question on Google Plus, Facebook, and Twitter as well as in person at a variety of establishments throughout Detroit. In all, a total of 106 Detroiters answered my question as to whether or not they believed that crime really was down in our city. My completely
unscientific polling found:
7 Detroiters (6.6% of respondents) said they
believed Chief Godbee that crime really was down in Detroit in 2011 in
comparison to the year before without any further clarification;
31 Detroiters in my sample (29.2% of
respondents) indicated that they believed that crime
was only down because of a declining population; and
68 Detroiters (64.2% of respondents) said that
they did not believe Chief Godbee's claim at all.
I have to say that it does not bode well for Mayor Dave Bing nor Chief Godbee when such a large group of Detroiters indicate that they do not believe the Detroit Police Department's
official crime statistics. Official statistics, after all, are supposed to becomprehensive, objective, and credible. When a solid majority of Detroiters don't believe them, it is indicative of a larger problem within the
Bing Administration, in my opinion. My personal opinion, in the interest of disclosure, is that Detroit has likely seen a significant drop in the number of crimes that have been reported to police. However, since my sources tell me that almost 30% of calls to 9-1-1 do not yield a response, the fact remains that there is a large amount of crime in Detroit that never makes it into our crime statistics. Unless those individuals who called 9-1-1, but did not get a police officer to show up when one was needed, took the time to go to a police station and file a report then the crime that they called 9-1-1 to report would have never made it into our statistics.
It seems highly doubtful, to me at least, that someone who wasn't able to get a response to a 9-1-1 call would take the time to file another report. Therefore, we likely have thousands of additional crimes in our city that aren't included in the official statistics. The most likely
conclusion, in my estimation, is that our true live of crime in Detroit was up in 2011; not down.
I'm confident that Chief Godbee and Mayor Bing will disagree with me on this. Of course, if they could make it so that Detroit police officers showed every time that they're needed and did so in a timely manner then we would likely have a better picture of what is really happening on our streets. Frank.Nemecek@gmail.com
Thursday, January 26, 2012
MIKE ILITCH A THIEF??? DETROIT TIGER / RED WING OWNER
Mike Ilitch owes the City up to $12m - for failing to secure and maintain Tiger Stadium under the City agreements...And if he can afford $214m for Fielder + Verlanders, Cabrera, etc..
Justin Verlander Salary Info and Value - Detroit Tigers Salaries -- Baseball Player Salaries - google / and click to see...
...
Councilman Ken Cockrel knows Ilitch owes the money - ask him....and
Ilitch can afford to pay for DPD officers assigned to the Tiger / Red Wing games.
The City of Detroit can't afford to demolish dangerous park bathrooms, and threaten to fire city workers - and want to raise coporate taxes to 2%...then the Council should demand that Ilitch pay up.
Justin Verlander Salary Info and Value - Detroit Tigers Salaries -- Baseball Player Salaries - google / and click to see...
...
Councilman Ken Cockrel knows Ilitch owes the money - ask him....and
Ilitch can afford to pay for DPD officers assigned to the Tiger / Red Wing games.
The City of Detroit can't afford to demolish dangerous park bathrooms, and threaten to fire city workers - and want to raise coporate taxes to 2%...then the Council should demand that Ilitch pay up.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
SCHWARTZ'S LAW..DETROIT POLICE - WADL CHANNEL 38
Schwartz's Law - WADL Channel 38, Sunday 12 Noon, January 22 (available on the internet) will feature George Hunter, (L) acclaimed police reporter for the Detroit News, and David L. Malhalab, (C) retired Detroit Police Sergeant. Michael Schwartz, a nationally known attorney, hosts the locally produced legal affairs show. The show addressed issues with the Detroit Police Department, including the controversial plan to create 'virtual precincts', also Crisnet, the DPD Crime Report System and DPD prisoner medical costs will be touched on. The program will be controversial and very informative. Malhalab has been an outspoken advocate for DPD officers and a critic of the Department. He encourages all police officers to speak out about issues that affect them and the public.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
DETROIT POLICE 'MAYTAG REPAIRMEN' INVESTIGATED FOR SPEED
INFO UPDATE...FROM DETROIT POLICE OFFICERS...
Since Detroit PC Godbee thinks DPD Officers are 'Maytag' repairmen, just sitting around waiting for something to happen....it seems he has hit upon an idea to keep some investigators busy - he must have too many homicide investigators...
PC Godbee has ordered investigations of all police cars that exceed - 80mph - be investigated...and some POs have been written up, including a duo that was responding to and 'officer needs assistance' call.....
POs...apparently cannot pursue speeders - now...either....
Their is no abandoned car officer in the 6th/8th/ Northwest District (?) that means stolen cars are not being found...abandon, stripped, vehicles are not being removed from city streets..
Community relations officers have been put on street patrol - leaving a void
'Virtual Precincts' remove a valuable contact point between residents and police officers..
Some residents, when the precincts were actually open, had to wait for hours to make a police report...
Godbee and Bing have it wrong - Detroit residents and police officers deserve better...
If you have a comment leave one...or comment on Facebook...
David L. Malhalab
Sgt DPD Retired
GOOGLE: DETROIT VIEWS - COMMENTS
Since Detroit PC Godbee thinks DPD Officers are 'Maytag' repairmen, just sitting around waiting for something to happen....it seems he has hit upon an idea to keep some investigators busy - he must have too many homicide investigators...
PC Godbee has ordered investigations of all police cars that exceed - 80mph - be investigated...and some POs have been written up, including a duo that was responding to and 'officer needs assistance' call.....
POs...apparently cannot pursue speeders - now...either....
Their is no abandoned car officer in the 6th/8th/ Northwest District (?) that means stolen cars are not being found...abandon, stripped, vehicles are not being removed from city streets..
Community relations officers have been put on street patrol - leaving a void
'Virtual Precincts' remove a valuable contact point between residents and police officers..
Some residents, when the precincts were actually open, had to wait for hours to make a police report...
Godbee and Bing have it wrong - Detroit residents and police officers deserve better...
If you have a comment leave one...or comment on Facebook...
David L. Malhalab
Sgt DPD Retired
GOOGLE: DETROIT VIEWS - COMMENTS
Saturday, January 14, 2012
DETROIT CRIMES NUMBERS LIE - SO DOES POLICE CHIEF
What happens in Detroit stays in Detroit - not TRUE...
What happens in Detroit may have impact on residents in the Suburbs.
Detroit PC Godbee closing Detroit police stations for 16 hours a day - means that more crime goes unreported, even with 'more police on patrol' and emboldens criminals to cross the borders and then go home free to Detroit where less police patrols, enforcement and lack of police reporting may give them a feeling of safety - while Detroit residents feel unsafe and afraid and so should suburban residents.
Recent articles in the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press on TV and radio, mislead the public into believing that crime in Detroit is down - UNTRUE. The reporters relied on numbers supplied by PC Godbee.
Detroit Police are now warning NAIAS / Detroit Auto Show visitors not to park on some streets because of an increase in auto break ins.
The reason that there were 7300 less part 1 crimes...is because they go unreported....!!!!
The lack of police response to 911 calls, home invasions (2 across from me), the time it takes to get thru to TCRU, the time it takes to make a report in a station - and now you cant even do that now that stations are closed 16 hrs a day - means that less crime is being reported.
Detroit residents feel they wont get a 911 response...and police officers trying to discourage making a report because CRINET is so time consuming - means less reported crime ( I didn't report 5 break ins to my garage - because I knew there was no chance to catch the criminals..)...and I had no insurance..
So PC Godbee is not telling the whole truth....and when I was working I got a report that the commander of the 10th precinct was shaving numbers ( I reported it to the FBI)...
Godbee should not be the PC..Detroit needs an outside highly respected chief....
David L. Malhalab
Sgt DPD Retired
ps..response..reporter
I think you hit the nail on the head Dave. It's under-reporting by the citizen. The lack of response from the police (almost 30 percent of the calls don't get a response). The reclassification and the shaving by commanders.
You got to admit it's a good news report when the prosecutor is calling it bullshit. And while we're at it -- 7300 less part1 crimes! That'd be a world fucking record. I take it as an insult to call me in, give me some color paper and tell me to disseminate it to the public unchallenged. I promise I will stay on it.
What happens in Detroit may have impact on residents in the Suburbs.
Detroit PC Godbee closing Detroit police stations for 16 hours a day - means that more crime goes unreported, even with 'more police on patrol' and emboldens criminals to cross the borders and then go home free to Detroit where less police patrols, enforcement and lack of police reporting may give them a feeling of safety - while Detroit residents feel unsafe and afraid and so should suburban residents.
Recent articles in the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press on TV and radio, mislead the public into believing that crime in Detroit is down - UNTRUE. The reporters relied on numbers supplied by PC Godbee.
Detroit Police are now warning NAIAS / Detroit Auto Show visitors not to park on some streets because of an increase in auto break ins.
The reason that there were 7300 less part 1 crimes...is because they go unreported....!!!!
The lack of police response to 911 calls, home invasions (2 across from me), the time it takes to get thru to TCRU, the time it takes to make a report in a station - and now you cant even do that now that stations are closed 16 hrs a day - means that less crime is being reported.
Detroit residents feel they wont get a 911 response...and police officers trying to discourage making a report because CRINET is so time consuming - means less reported crime ( I didn't report 5 break ins to my garage - because I knew there was no chance to catch the criminals..)...and I had no insurance..
So PC Godbee is not telling the whole truth....and when I was working I got a report that the commander of the 10th precinct was shaving numbers ( I reported it to the FBI)...
Godbee should not be the PC..Detroit needs an outside highly respected chief....
David L. Malhalab
Sgt DPD Retired
ps..response..reporter
I think you hit the nail on the head Dave. It's under-reporting by the citizen. The lack of response from the police (almost 30 percent of the calls don't get a response). The reclassification and the shaving by commanders.
You got to admit it's a good news report when the prosecutor is calling it bullshit. And while we're at it -- 7300 less part1 crimes! That'd be a world fucking record. I take it as an insult to call me in, give me some color paper and tell me to disseminate it to the public unchallenged. I promise I will stay on it.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
DETROIT POLICE - VIRTUAL PRECINCTS ??
VIRTUAL DETROIT POLICE PRECINCTS !
OMG - Detroit Police Chief Godbee has foisted / imposed / the most outlandish Reorganization Plan on the residents of Detroit - that will put Detroit Police Officers and residents - lives in danger...!!!!!
He will close precincts - a necessary public building that should be kept open, at all costs - close City Hall, cut the City Council staff and budget - but keep police precincts OPEN - 24 / 7 - Detroit is not Boston or Lansing, it is Detroit a deeply troubled city with very serious crime problems. Say Goodbye to Detroit's false claim of 'community relations'.
Godbee, the Chief that shouldn't have been, and with the apparent approval of Mayor Bing, will close the precincts between 4pm - and 8am ( 16 hours) to the public. Precincts have been an essential safe haven, crime reporting, and contact point between the community and the police - it is outrageous and simply, defiantly wrong to close any Detroit Police Precinct for any time.
There needs to be some restructuring within the police department - some inside police duties should be shifted to sworn civilians - but to denigrate and deceive Detroit residents, into believing that police officers don't serve the needs of residents by working inside the precinct stations - is a damnable lie - and Chief Godbee comparing officers who work inside to "Maytag repairman - waiting for a crime to happen" is insulting, and clearly dim witted. Godbee has insulted all police officers in Detroit and throughout the nation, with this clear misrepresentation of what police officers do - while assigned to inside duties.
Detroit needs more police officers on the street - patrolling, but officers are needed to take thousands of police reports that citizens make inside the station - that patrolling officers can't take - which frees officers to keep patrolling.
Detroit needs police detectives in the precincts - to investigate the crime that patrolling officers and desk officers take - they need to be the contact point for residents who can't figure out where to go to get follow up information - on their reported crime.
Crisnet, the primary crime report system for DPD has been a mistake and a ball and chain around the ankles of police officers since former PC Ella Bully-Cummings approved using it - it keeps police officers from properly patrolling the streets - I have complained about it for years - former Asst Police Chief Ronald Haddad (now Dearborn PC) wrote, and infamous memo, confirming my criticism of Crisnet and every police chief since Cummings has said - Crisnet would be dropped - it has not been - so police officers continue to be burdended by a slow crime report system.
Councilman Gray Brown, has said that he could save DPD $8 million dollars, but has failed to put his suggestions on the table - but continues to try con Detroit residents with his ignorant blather - rather that putting a concrete proposal out - so it can be discussed.
Bing put his faith and the lives of Detroit polic officers and residents in the hands of Godbee - and we have got NOTHING GOOD from him.
I have complained about the low hiring standards, lack of training and lack of equipment in the Department, and for years about the nepotism, favoritism and cronyism that has corrupted and destroyed the Detroit Police Department.
I have said for years that Detroit police officers and residents deserve better from its political leaders and it police executives - Godbee's 'virtual precincts' and his lack of real, solid, and creative solutions to the Departments problems and Mayor Bing's support of him - shows that both Bing and Godbee need to be replaced, and the sooner the better - for the safety of officers and residents.
What do you think ???
OMG - Detroit Police Chief Godbee has foisted / imposed / the most outlandish Reorganization Plan on the residents of Detroit - that will put Detroit Police Officers and residents - lives in danger...!!!!!
He will close precincts - a necessary public building that should be kept open, at all costs - close City Hall, cut the City Council staff and budget - but keep police precincts OPEN - 24 / 7 - Detroit is not Boston or Lansing, it is Detroit a deeply troubled city with very serious crime problems. Say Goodbye to Detroit's false claim of 'community relations'.
Godbee, the Chief that shouldn't have been, and with the apparent approval of Mayor Bing, will close the precincts between 4pm - and 8am ( 16 hours) to the public. Precincts have been an essential safe haven, crime reporting, and contact point between the community and the police - it is outrageous and simply, defiantly wrong to close any Detroit Police Precinct for any time.
There needs to be some restructuring within the police department - some inside police duties should be shifted to sworn civilians - but to denigrate and deceive Detroit residents, into believing that police officers don't serve the needs of residents by working inside the precinct stations - is a damnable lie - and Chief Godbee comparing officers who work inside to "Maytag repairman - waiting for a crime to happen" is insulting, and clearly dim witted. Godbee has insulted all police officers in Detroit and throughout the nation, with this clear misrepresentation of what police officers do - while assigned to inside duties.
Detroit needs more police officers on the street - patrolling, but officers are needed to take thousands of police reports that citizens make inside the station - that patrolling officers can't take - which frees officers to keep patrolling.
Detroit needs police detectives in the precincts - to investigate the crime that patrolling officers and desk officers take - they need to be the contact point for residents who can't figure out where to go to get follow up information - on their reported crime.
Crisnet, the primary crime report system for DPD has been a mistake and a ball and chain around the ankles of police officers since former PC Ella Bully-Cummings approved using it - it keeps police officers from properly patrolling the streets - I have complained about it for years - former Asst Police Chief Ronald Haddad (now Dearborn PC) wrote, and infamous memo, confirming my criticism of Crisnet and every police chief since Cummings has said - Crisnet would be dropped - it has not been - so police officers continue to be burdended by a slow crime report system.
Councilman Gray Brown, has said that he could save DPD $8 million dollars, but has failed to put his suggestions on the table - but continues to try con Detroit residents with his ignorant blather - rather that putting a concrete proposal out - so it can be discussed.
Bing put his faith and the lives of Detroit polic officers and residents in the hands of Godbee - and we have got NOTHING GOOD from him.
I have complained about the low hiring standards, lack of training and lack of equipment in the Department, and for years about the nepotism, favoritism and cronyism that has corrupted and destroyed the Detroit Police Department.
I have said for years that Detroit police officers and residents deserve better from its political leaders and it police executives - Godbee's 'virtual precincts' and his lack of real, solid, and creative solutions to the Departments problems and Mayor Bing's support of him - shows that both Bing and Godbee need to be replaced, and the sooner the better - for the safety of officers and residents.
What do you think ???
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