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Username: Rustic2
Post Number: 1
Registered: 03-2009
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:03 am: |    |
OK, no offense intended to our friends in blue. But where are the cops? I can drive, and often do, from one end of Detroit to the other and not see a single patrol car. I've worked downtown at least once a week since mid-December and don't think I've seen more than one. In my own near-west suburb, which by no means has enough police officers, I can't drive five minutes without seeing one. Any good answers? |
Pcm
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Username: Pcm
Post Number: 33
Registered: 01-2009
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:34 am: | |
Detroit is very large.
Your near-west suburb is not. |
Goose
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Username: Goose
Post Number: 111
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:36 am: | |
suburban donut shops??? |
Mayor_sekou
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Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 2656
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:37 am: | |
I see cops all the time. But then I'm always either downtown or in some of the better areas of the city so that may not be a realistic representation of actual police coverage. |
Emuaaron
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Username: Emuaaron
Post Number: 54
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:43 am: | |
are you taking the highway? i drive the surface roads daily and see a lot of cops on patrol. The Livernois-MI Ave area is always crawling with cops. |
Rustic2
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Username: Rustic2
Post Number: 2
Registered: 03-2009
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:44 am: | |
Granted, Pcm, but the DPD is also very large, compared to my town's 67-member department. |
Rustic2
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Username: Rustic2
Post Number: 3
Registered: 03-2009
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:49 am: | |
Emuaaron, you have a good point, I am often on the freeway, but not always. And my brother, who is on surface streets a lot (a DPS employee, southwest side) says the same thing. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9134
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:50 am: | |
The only time I notice them seriously is when they flash their pretty lights behind me.
Otherwise, every time I see a cop car on duty...I pull out my trusty one-hitter (old 'Dugout' patent number 4214658) and toast to the men and women in blue serving and protecting us!
Seriously, Rustic2, I don't see how you could miss them. Detroit police are all over the place.
It is a really good buzz living here...luckily not nearly as stoning as driving through Ohio or Oklahoma, though! |
Lodgedodger
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Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 1726
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:52 am: | |
I see them daily. |
Det_ard
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Username: Det_ard
Post Number: 75
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:57 am: | |
There's usually one or two at the White Castle in Ferndale. |
Noodles
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Username: Noodles
Post Number: 32
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 11:00 am: | |
quote:Otherwise, every time I see a cop car on duty...I pull out my trusty one-hitter (old 'Dugout' patent number 4214658) and toast to the men and women in blue serving and protecting us!
Classy. |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 4590
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 11:11 am: | |
Where are the police?
Getting coffee and donuts!
WORD FROM THE STREET PROPHET
Now that's cop food! |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9136
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 12:07 pm: | |
Noodles, life is the game we choose to play, isn't it?! |
Gsgeorge
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Username: Gsgeorge
Post Number: 788
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 12:12 pm: | |
I see them patrolling all the time in Midtown/Downtown/Woodbridge area |
Noodles
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Username: Noodles
Post Number: 33
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 12:19 pm: | |
quote:Noodles, life is the game we choose to play, isn't it?!
I don't give a shit what game you play, my point is your pride in disregarding any semblance of discretion in a town desperate for an image makeover is a problem. |
Django
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Username: Django
Post Number: 2203
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 12:49 pm: | |
Noodles.
I dont think Gannon is taking pride, I think hes flaunting a bit of civil disobedience. It needs to be done.
Detroit could be a catalyst for Midwest drug law reform, but it takes ppl with a little bit of balls to get it going. |
Chitaku
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Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 2167
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 12:51 pm: | |
I'm sure Gannon smoking a discreet one hitter in his car is really tainting the Detroit name. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9138
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 12:56 pm: | |
Yep, doin' the best I can to be indiscrete.
I'm rarely in a car nowadays.
Oh shit, or is that in-da-street? |
Rustic2
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Username: Rustic2
Post Number: 4
Registered: 03-2009
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 1:05 pm: | |
Noodles, I agree, and I'll take it a step farther: Forget discretion, it's just plain wrong. I speak from experience.
Understand, though, that doesn't mean I'm against drug law reform. |
Django
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Username: Django
Post Number: 2205
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 1:18 pm: | |
If you want reform you gotta talk about it. I think its wrong not to talk about it, or flaunt it even. Pot laws are absurd and Gannon just made that a little clearer in his joke. |
Rustic2
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Username: Rustic2
Post Number: 5
Registered: 03-2009
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 1:26 pm: | |
It should be talked about, I agree. But advocating drug-law reform isn't the same thing as advocating pot-smoking. |
Mayor_sekou
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Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 2657
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 2:47 pm: | |
You potheads can never stay on topic. |
Lodgedodger
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Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 1730
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 3:01 pm: | |
I didn't even know what it was Gannon was referring to.
Good to see you posting, Django.
*hug* |
Kraig
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Username: Kraig
Post Number: 7
Registered: 03-2009
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 3:59 pm: | |
The police really only patrol the more active commercial/retail areas. The less commercial the area the less police presence. That's why you don't see that many police on the Northeast side at all or on the Southwest Side once you get away from the main commercial strips. Not even a strong presence on Fort Street which is sad since there is a police station on Fort street. Unless they're on Hooker patrol, you never see them on streets like Chene that are pretty desolated. It appears that they are focusing less on crime fighting or prevention and focusing more on crime containment. |
Hamtragedy
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Username: Hamtragedy
Post Number: 396
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 5:36 pm: | |
The one-hitter that looks like a cigarette. Mine came up missing when I sold my last truck.
I see cops all the time. They're usually in groups of four doing 80 down Evergreen (except when they're trying to navigate the mistimed intersection at Fenkell, where they have to crawl). |
Softailrider
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Username: Softailrider
Post Number: 310
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 6:33 pm: | |
I'm in the city every day, in all the neighborhoods and I don't see a lot of police in the city. It's been that way for a few years now. Traffic laws (or any other laws) aren't really enforced. |