  Busterwmu Member Username: Busterwmu Post Number: 526 Registered: 09-2004 |
From www.wwj.com: Detroit Neighborhoods Get "Mini" Safety Boost Detroit (WWJ) -- It was a boost for Detroit safety services Friday with the unveiling of a new mobile mini-station, the re-opening of a police mini-station on Schaefer, and the purchase of 28 new EMS vehicles. Detroit Police Chief James Barron said the mobile mini stations are something the residents have been asking for, "This one will be deployed in areas where we don't have [permanent] mini stations. Information will get out through community meetings where it will be located," Chief Barron said. "It is something that is sorely needed, " he said. Detroit resident and community activist, Tyrone Carter, told WWJ Newsradio 950's Beth Fisher he hopes these additions will be helpful. "There's a lot of criminal activity in the neighborhood. Open-air transactions, certain corners -- Fort Street/Outer Drive is notorious for prostitution activity. It's right across the street from Lincoln Park, and there's none on the Lincoln Park side," Carter said. "Why do they feel so comfortable? Because there's no police presence," he said. Theresa Landrum of Southwest Detroit said that, while she's happy to see the mini station re-opened, it's not nearly enough. "They have to put more manpower out in our streets," Landrum said. "Just because the mini station opened, it's going to be Senior Citizens manning that police department. We're going to need permanent patrol," she said. http://www.wwj.com/Detroit-Nei ghborhoods-Get--Mini--Safety-B oost/3933364 | ||
Fnemecek Member Username: Fnemecek Post Number: 1946 Registered: 12-2004 |
I'm just wondering: how many 9-1-1 calls will this mobile mini-station respond to? Oh, yeah. Right. NONE. The Cockrel Clowns are just wasting more of my money. | ||
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit Post Number: 1240 Registered: 11-2006 |
all you do is bitch | ||
Fnemecek Member Username: Fnemecek Post Number: 1947 Registered: 12-2004 |
Read the other threads. I've also proposed several suggestions on how the Cockrel Clowns could do a better job, if they were actually interested. But they're not. And so we just wait until May so we can have a grown-up in the Mayor's Office. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 2600 Registered: 10-2003 |
Frank, I think the 8.9% at the polls and 5% of write ins will prove that Cockrel is our mayor! A carpetbagger? For real? How could you? | ||
Motown Member Username: Motown Post Number: 11 Registered: 10-2003 |
That truck was actually purchased during the Kwame/Ella Bully administration. It's been sitting collecting dust since at least last October. | ||
Fnemecek Member Username: Fnemecek Post Number: 1949 Registered: 12-2004 |
I know, SS. I know. I should just go look at the pretty flashing lights that I'm sure the mobile mini-station has. That will calm me down. | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 786 Registered: 05-2007 |
didn't they suppsoedly purchase a bunch of EMS units a couple years ago, but somehow squandered the money to pay for them so they were never delivered? Seem to remember reading something to that effect in the news awhile back. | ||
Tkshreve Member Username: Tkshreve Post Number: 769 Registered: 07-2006 |
So what does it do? | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3588 Registered: 07-2004 |
Kwame Kilpatrick's transition team member in charge of the EMS reorganization blew it. Bought a bunch of SUVs, which cannot carry patients. The rationale was that EMS would arrive, use the stuff in the SUV to help patients on-site, then bring in an ambulance if nec. Only problem is, when the patient is a trauma victim, all the drug boxes in the world won't help; they need to be rushed to a skilled surgeon or risk dying. And when you're on the family's front lawn with an SUV and a bleeding gunshot victim, that family is going to be pissed. A little while later, I noticed I never saw an SUV marked anything other than SUPERVISOR. So I assume they gave the SUVs to the FD staff instead of using them. | ||
Fnemecek Member Username: Fnemecek Post Number: 1951 Registered: 12-2004 |
quote: It's like a regular mini-station, except that it moves and has pretty, flashing lights on it. You can find a photo of it @ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29 433386/ I like how they included this line in the article: quote: I am so glad that we're getting a mobile mini-station now. Because, you know, it's not like we can just assign officers to a squad car and send them into those "hot spots". We need a specially designed truck for that. *sigh* DPD had its mobile command post stationed in the Warrendale neighborhood for a couple of weeks this past fall. Would anyone like to know what it accomplished? | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 387 Registered: 10-2007 |
I do regular work in Warrendale. Considering that one customer who lives there gave up calling the police, yes. | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1682 Registered: 11-2003 |
"I've also proposed several suggestions on how the Cockrel Clowns could do a better job, if they were actually interested. " Instead of posting them online...have you tried to contact the Mayor's office directly? I don't think KC is looking on Dyes on ways to his job better. | ||
Fnemecek Member Username: Fnemecek Post Number: 1953 Registered: 12-2004 |
Viziondetroit: I sent Mayor Cockrel a letter that outlined those proposal within a week of him assuming office. Neither he nor any member of his staff ever responded. The posts on my blog and on this forum were simply a matter of repeating them. Hamtragedy: The fact that your customer has given up on calling the police simply illustrates how ineffective things like the mobile command post and mobile mini-station are at combating the crime that is systemic within Detroit's neighborhoods. My comment above was intended as sarcasm. | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 389 Registered: 10-2007 |
That's why I mentioned it. |
