  Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 914 Registered: 11-2004 |
Hopefully they can find the resources to do this across the rest of the city. Also don't you find funny when last years crime stats came out the there was a big headline: MURDERS SOAR IN DETROIT. But this doesn't garner so much as a mention on the front page? Detroit crime falls after gang crackdown In one year of agencies' joint program, homicides, shootings drop notably on city's northwest side. Paul Egan / The Detroit News DETROIT -- Federal, state and local police claimed success Friday in a year-long crackdown on violent gangs in northwest Detroit. Project Safe Neighborhoods Operation TIDE (Tactical Intelligence Driven Enforcement), a U.S. Justice Department program, brought together 10 agencies to focus on gun crimes. U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy said from May 2006 to May 2007, homicides in Detroit's northwest district dropped 43 percent, from 30 to 17, and nonfatal shootings dropped 26 percent, from 118 to 87. That compared to an 8 percent drop in homicides and a 15 percent reduction in nonfatal shootings in the rest of Detroit during the same period, he said. http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.d ll/article?AID=/20070811/METRO /708110392&theme=Metro-Crime | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 241 Registered: 02-2007 |
Sorry to be such a curmudgeon, but if the population is dropping shouldn't homicide numbers? They're running out of people to shoot at  | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1402 Registered: 10-2006 |
Not funny Sstashmoo. Find me that stats that say Detroit's Northwest population has dropped 43% or that the city's dropped 8 or 15% in the last year! | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 3548 Registered: 02-2005 |
Yeah good point. Plus, it wouldn't be the criminals who are leaving the city, either. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 2278 Registered: 11-2005 |
I heard this story a few times on WWJ yesterday so it was getting some exposure. Good news. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 1677 Registered: 10-2003 |
I heard the story yesterday on 91.7 as well. | ||
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou Post Number: 1252 Registered: 09-2006 |
So we might be under 400 after all, huh? Good good. |
