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DETROIT NOW TICKETING PEOPLE FOR REPORTING CRIMES
January 7 2012
Detroit, MI - Detroit is a rough town, arguably in the running for the toughest town in America. Though far from the roughest city on the planet, no doubt, Detroit has suffered like no other city in the United States. Because it was totally dependent on manufacturing the city essentially collapsed when the bottom fell out of that industry, resulting in now decades of decay and generations of kids growing up without much in the way of education and hope.
That, in turn, has self-propelled the decay. Kids growing up in crime create new crime, which in turn causes more kids to grow up in crime, a dynamic which keeps itself alive until, eventually, the city falls in on itself. In recent years, there has been some hope of a turnaround in the city but years of decay will not be fixed in such a short time, something the residents of the city and the outlying areas just have to live with.
That is a reality that a family in Westland, a suburb of the city, are now dealing with after a break in. It isn’t the break in that was actually the problem, though, it was the response by the police who have made the victims into the criminals after they dared ask for help.
“My mom called me, said someone had kicked in the door. I actually got dressed. I drove over to her house. It probably took me approximately an hour to get there,” said Sean Street before her called 911 to report the crime. “Actually was no profanity whatsoever. I was very polite with them. The officer actually seemed very polite, also, and he told me let us handle it. Don't take matters into your own hands.”
Police took more than an hour to arrive, in which time Street called the service three times to find out what exactly was taking so long. A few days later, Street received a ticket in the mail for misusing the service.
No suspects in the break in have been found and the police have not followed up with Street’s mother, and she is afraid to call just in case, you know.
It’s not clear if the multiple calls actually prompted the police to arrive sooner, or just to arrive more annoyed, which may have resulted in the ticket.
“Detroit and area have a lot of problems, a lot of crime, that’s a simple fact. Police are understaffed and overworked and as a result they can get annoyed when people call to report crimes. I mean that’s all people do, they call to report crimes. They don’t call to thank the police, to be nice to them, just to complain about something bad happening. Eventually that has to take a toll on the people involved,” said Scrape TV Crime analyst Willard Weston. “I mean Police don’t want to investigate crimes anymore than people want to have them happen in the first place and when you are in a situation where a person is insistent, aggressively so, that the police actually respond to their calls it is going to get a negative response and that appears to be what happened here. Lesson learned I suppose.”
Street is planning on challenging the ticket, provided he can find out who to call about it.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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