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[Panafrican]

So good things happen in Detroit !!!!
Hello, everything isn't bad here.

[AsK]

Panafrican wrote:

So good things happen in Detroit !!!!
Hello, everything isn't bad here.

just rape, murders, foreclosures, lack of work oh and the mayor is a liar. But besides that the grass is very green.

[panafrican]

AsK wrote:

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just rape, murders, foreclosures, lack of work oh and the mayor is a liar. But besides that the grass is very green.

We are the world. What happens here happens everywhere in the world.

[AsK]

panafrican wrote:

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We are the world. What happens here happens everywhere in the world.

Wrong again, it's Detroit, and what happens here seems to be more so then any other city in the US.

These numbers are per-every 100,000 citizens.

Detroit Crime Index 9467
National Average: 4479.3

Detroit Violent Crimes: 2418.9
National Average: 553.5

Detroit Murders 47.3
National Average: 7

Detroit Rapes 67
National Average: 33.1

Detroit Robberies 818.6
National Average: 205.8

Detroit Property Crimes 7048.1
National Average: 3906.1

Detroit Burglaries 2050.3
National Average: 813.2

[Poetic Justice]

From a different blog
Truthis wrote:
This is the one that amazes me the most. Mayor Kilpatrick came in and saved our Detroit Police Department from: Recievership from a State Take Over. The police department is now wearing full union form, it there union forms must be in tack from head to toe. The police stations have been down sized and that is because there are not enough citizens, in the city for the number of officers on the street. Truthis

Let see he reduced the police department, so crime went up and people moved out. This, along with the economy tanking, caused more abandoned houses and more crime. With less of a tax pool, they raise taxes and cut more police officers. But they wear “Their Uniforms” now. Crime still went up despite the new “Uniforms”. So now that the city has 100s of thousand less citizens (a smaller tax pool, so higher taxes) and a higher crime rate, you believe Kwame did the right thing. For who? Criminals?

[panafrican]

AsK wrote:

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Wrong again, it's Detroit, and what happens here seems to be more so then any other city in the US.
These numbers are per-every 100,000 citizens.
Detroit Crime Index 9467
National Average: 4479.3
Detroit Violent Crimes: 2418.9
National Average: 553.5
Detroit Murders 47.3
National Average: 7
Detroit Rapes 67
National Average: 33.1
Detroit Robberies 818.6
National Average: 205.8
Detroit Property Crimes 7048.1
National Average: 3906.1
Detroit Burglaries 2050.3
National Average: 813.2

Here is one fact you are hiding(can you tell us why?) Larceny Theft: Detroit 2406.8
National average 2601.7
Detroit is below the national average.

I want to see the data about school fatal shootings and shootings in malls by city and by race.
Do you know how many sexual predators are arrested every week in Oakland county MI?
How can people grow Mary-Ju-Ana in their garage,(just north of 8 Mile) and say nasty things about the great city of Detroit ?
Hello, Timothe McVeigh is not from Detroit,
Hello there, Colombine HS school is not in Detroit
Virginia Tech is not Wayne state university.
Every week- end at least 200,000 visitors come to downton Detroit for fun. How many are killed? zero!
Is Detroit the dirtiest city in the world?
1)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/93300
2)
http://www.italylogue.com/planning-a-trip/nap...

[AsK]

panafrican wrote:

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Here is one fact you are hiding(can you tell us why?) Larceny Theft: Detroit 2406.8
National average 2601.7
Detroit is below the national average.
I want to see the data about school fatal shootings and shootings in malls by city and by race.
Do you know how many sexual predators are arrested every week in Oakland county MI?
How can people grow Mary-Ju-Ana in their garage,(just north of 8 Mile) and say nasty things about the great city of Detroit ?
Hello, Timothe McVeigh is not from Detroit,
Hello there, Colombine HS school is not in Detroit
Virginia Tech is not Wayne state university.
Every week- end at least 200,000 visitors come to downton Detroit for fun. How many are killed? zero!
Is Detroit the dirtiest city in the world?
1)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/93300
2)
http://www.italylogue.com/planning-a-trip/nap...

Dude, I am not google, go look yourself. You lazy ignorant fool.

[panafrican]

AsK wrote:

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Dude, I am not google, go look yourself. You lazy ignorant fool.

Ah ahah, Hello, watch how they fight back when you catch them.
Louis Armstrong please!
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[Poetic Justice]

I googled dumbest criminals and got this : Detroit only got 2nd and 3rd place

RUNNER-UP #2
Detroit: R.C. Gaitlan, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing their squad car computer felon-location equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked how the system worked, the officer asked him for identification. Gaitlan gave them his drivers license, they entered it into the computer, and moments later they arrested Gaitlan because information on the screen showed Gaitlan was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in St. Louis, Missouri.

RUNNER-UP #1
Another from Detroit: A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.

The winner was from NC

[Poetic Justice]

Artical from the washington post, by a black reporter: Part one
Are you a criminal? Do you take from others what is not yours? Do you want to live in a city where you can run wild and don't have to worry about being hassled by the police? Then come to Detroit where you can be inside someone's house robbing them while the owners are locked inside a bedroom calling 911, and the police will tell the homeowners: "We are in the middle of shift change. Maybe you should call 911 again," or in another case, your 911 call goes into voice mail.
Calling all criminals! And don't worry about rising violent crime statistics that year after year has made Detroit the murder capital of America and, according to Forbes Magazine, "The most miserable city in America," because Detroit's police chief refuses to report accurately all of the violent crime statistics committed by black people against black people here in Detroit. Here, even the police pad their own time cards with impunity.
Kwame Kilpatrick, the current embattled mayor of Detroit, seems to have a new scandal hit him daily since the so-called "sex, lies and text messaging" scandal first broke in late January. The Detroit Free Press published excerpts from over 14,000 text messages the mayor and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, exchanged with one another, conclusively proving that Kilpatrick committed perjury by firing Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown and former mayoral bodyguard Harold Nelthorpe during their whistleblower lawsuit settled late last year for $9 million.
Once all of the mayor's text messages are reviewed and those of his top appointees are published, it will be clear to all the evidence of malfeasance, fraud, abuse, perjury, cronyism, obstruction of justice – perhaps even double murder?– as well as many other infamies reaching up to the highest levels in Detroit city government.
On this point, Detroit-area attorney Norman Yatooma has recently received a judgment from U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen to view the text messages of the mayor and all of his top appointees in the denial-of-access claim Yatooma filed on behalf of dancer Tamara Greene's 14-year-old son, Jonathan Bond. Greene was the stripper who was gunned down in 2003 after performing at a party at the mayor's Manoogian Mansion.
Before I address Mayor Kilpatrick's top law enforcement appointee, Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, let me give you an idea into the Machiavellian and Clintonian tactics the mayor regularly employs to seize, maintain and wield power.
Like a ganglord of the Crips, the Bloods or the Gangster Disciples, the last thing a gang recruit has to do to get into a gang is commit some egregious act like rape, sadistically beating someone up, or even murder. Why? So the gang will have something over your head to force your lifelong allegiance. One notorious gang even has the ominous motto: "In feet first, out feet first."
These are the evil tactics Kilpatrick uses to demand allegiance to his omnipotent authority. Even the black preachers of Detroit aren't exempt, which is why they have been so uncharacteristically silent for the past six years of Kilpatrick's tyrannical administration. He has them right in his back pocket.

[Poetic Justice]

Part two
The mayor knew the political and legal heat he was under when he appointed Bully-Cummings police chief in November 2003. By that time, it had been over a year since his mysterious party at the Manoogian Mansion (October 2002)– a party the police chief of Southfield, Mich., was even invited to, but wisely declined; a party that was investigated by Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown, Lt. Alvin Bowman, Harold Nelthrope and barred by Bully-Cummings (at the direction of the mayor) when the investigation got too close to His Honor.
In fact, the very day Officer Brown's investigation memo regarding the mayor's Manoogian Mansion party was to become public (April 30, 2003), one of the three dancers at that party, Tamara "Strawberry" Greene, was viciously murdered as she and her boyfriend sat in a car at the corner of Roselawn and Outer Dr.– literally around the block from where I grew up in the late 1960s-80s.
A second dancer at the party, which the mayor and Michigan Republican Attorney General Mike Cox still insist was "an urban legend," was tracked down to Atlanta and reportedly killed with the same 40-caliber police-issued weapon. All this drama for a party that never happened? Like my grandmamma used to tell me, "Boy, where there's smoke, there's fire."
Bowman, a 31-year decorated veteran officer, was fired by Bully-Cummings and his life repeatedly threatened by fellow Detroit police officers for his investigations into the Manoogian Mansion party and the deaths of the two exotic dancers, which his independent investigation strongly implied were murdered by Detroit police officers.
Bully-Cummings has proven herself to be a worthy ally for Kilpatrick, for even as the mayor's litany of infamies became public knowledge in the sex, lies and text messaging scandal, even as the murder rate rose in Detroit and as year after year Detroit won the dubious distinction as "murder capital of America," this police chief has become very clever at cooking the books – altering or not accurately reporting the homicide and violent crimes statistics so that Mayor Kilpatrick could campaign in 2005 on a platform that Detroit's crime rate was down. Down compared to what? Beirut, Lebanon, Iraq or Afghanistan?
Chief Bully-Cummings is an utterly compromised, corrupt and incompetent public official. She, like all of the other sycophantic appointees and cronies under Kilpatrick's authority, will say and do anything to keep their coveted city jobs and lucrative perks.
Under Bully-Cumming's leadership, there has also been a systematic and devastating brain drain in the ranks of the Detroit Police Department as hundreds of veteran police personnel were either laid off or forced into an early retirement. Detroit is now begging people to fill the vacancies, yet because of the criminal backgrounds or the mis-education of many otherwise able-bodied young black men in the city, Detroit regrettably has few qualified candidates for the police academy.
Consider this bitter irony: Would black people in Detroit and the so-called civil rights movement tolerate today the tyranny of a white racist leader like Alabama Gov. George Wallace or a sadistic, pathological police chief like a Bull Connor of the 1960s? No, because history has proven their singular valor against white racism. Then why do black people in Detroit and in cities across America sit so passively by as they have done here while being openly terrorized, abused, lied to, cheated upon and so utterly misrepresented by their own people?
Liberalism is killing my people here in Detroit, and they don't even realize it.
Calling all Criminals... Come to Detroit!

[Poetic Justice]

Part one of an artical from the washington post by a black reporter.

Calling all criminals: Come to Detroit!

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Posted: March 20, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

We are in the middle of shift change. Maybe you should call 911 again.
~ Detroit Police 911 Operator's response to a citizen in distress

NOTICE: Calling all criminals!

Are you a criminal? Do you take from others what is not yours? Do you want to live in a city where you can run wild and don't have to worry about being hassled by the police? Then come to Detroit where you can be inside someone's house robbing them while the owners are locked inside a bedroom calling 911, and the police will tell the homeowners: "We are in the middle of shift change. Maybe you should call 911 again," or in another case, your 911 call goes into voice mail.

Calling all criminals! And don't worry about rising violent crime statistics that year after year has made Detroit the murder capital of America and, according to Forbes Magazine, "The most miserable city in America," because Detroit's police chief refuses to report accurately all of the violent crime statistics committed by black people against black people here in Detroit. Here, even the police pad their own time cards with impunity.

Kwame Kilpatrick, the current embattled mayor of Detroit, seems to have a new scandal hit him daily since the so-called "sex, lies and text messaging" scandal first broke in late January. The Detroit Free Press published excerpts from over 14,000 text messages the mayor and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, exchanged with one another, conclusively proving that Kilpatrick committed perjury by firing Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown and former mayoral bodyguard Harold Nelthorpe during their whistleblower lawsuit settled late last year for $9 million.

Once all of the mayor's text messages are reviewed and those of his top appointees are published, it will be clear to all the evidence of malfeasance, fraud, abuse, perjury, cronyism, obstruction of justice – perhaps even double murder?– as well as many other infamies reaching up to the highest levels in Detroit city government.

On this point, Detroit-area attorney Norman Yatooma has recently received a judgment from U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen to view the text messages of the mayor and all of his top appointees in the denial-of-access claim Yatooma filed on behalf of dancer Tamara Greene's 14-year-old son, Jonathan Bond. Greene was the stripper who was gunned down in 2003 after performing at a party at the mayor's Manoogian Mansion.

Before I address Mayor Kilpatrick's top law enforcement appointee, Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, let me give you an idea into the Machiavellian and Clintonian tactics the mayor regularly employs to seize, maintain and wield power.

Like a ganglord of the Crips, the Bloods or the Gangster Disciples, the last thing a gang recruit has to do to get into a gang is commit some egregious act like rape, sadistically beating someone up, or even murder. Why? So the gang will have something over your head to force your lifelong allegiance. One notorious gang even has the ominous motto: "In feet first, out feet first."

These are the evil tactics Kilpatrick uses to demand allegiance to his omnipotent authority. Even the black preachers of Detroit aren't exempt, which is why they have been so uncharacteristically silent for the past six years of Kilpatrick's tyrannical administration. He has them right in his back pocket.

[panafrican]

Poetic Justice wrote:

I googled dumbest criminals and got this : Detroit only got 2nd and 3rd place.

I read : << I googled dumbest criminals and got this : Detroit wasn't number one>>.

[Poetic Justice]

Second try for part two:
The mayor knew the political and legal heat he was under when he appointed Bully-Cummings police chief in November 2003. By that time, it had been over a year since his mysterious party at the Manoogian Mansion (October 2002)– a party the police chief of Southfield, Mich., was even invited to, but wisely declined; a party that was investigated by Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown, Lt. Alvin Bowman, Harold Nelthrope and barred by Bully-Cummings (at the direction of the mayor) when the investigation got too close to His Honor.

In fact, the very day Officer Brown's investigation memo regarding the mayor's Manoogian Mansion party was to become public (April 30, 2003), one of the three dancers at that party, Tamara "Strawberry" Greene, was viciously murdered as she and her boyfriend sat in a car at the corner of Roselawn and Outer Dr.– literally around the block from where I grew up in the late 1960s-80s.

A second dancer at the party, which the mayor and Michigan Republican Attorney General Mike Cox still insist was "an urban legend," was tracked down to Atlanta and reportedly killed with the same 40-caliber police-issued weapon. All this drama for a party that never happened? Like my grandmamma used to tell me, "Boy, where there's smoke, there's fire."

Bowman, a 31-year decorated veteran officer, was fired by Bully-Cummings and his life repeatedly threatened by fellow Detroit police officers for his investigations into the Manoogian Mansion party and the deaths of the two exotic dancers, which his independent investigation strongly implied were murdered by Detroit police officers.

Bully-Cummings has proven herself to be a worthy ally for Kilpatrick, for even as the mayor's litany of infamies became public knowledge in the sex, lies and text messaging scandal, even as the murder rate rose in Detroit and as year after year Detroit won the dubious distinction as "murder capital of America," this police chief has become very clever at cooking the books – altering or not accurately reporting the homicide and violent crimes statistics so that Mayor Kilpatrick could campaign in 2005 on a platform that Detroit's crime rate was down. Down compared to what? Beirut, Lebanon, Iraq or Afghanistan?

Chief Bully-Cummings is an utterly compromised, corrupt and incompetent public official. She, like all of the other sycophantic appointees and cronies under Kilpatrick's authority, will say and do anything to keep their coveted city jobs and lucrative perks.

Under Bully-Cumming's leadership, there has also been a systematic and devastating brain drain in the ranks of the Detroit Police Department as hundreds of veteran police personnel were either laid off or forced into an early retirement. Detroit is now begging people to fill the vacancies, yet because of the criminal backgrounds or the mis-education of many otherwise able-bodied young black men in the city, Detroit regrettably has few qualified candidates for the police academy.

Consider this bitter irony: Would black people in Detroit and the so-called civil rights movement tolerate today the tyranny of a white racist leader like Alabama Gov. George Wallace or a sadistic, pathological police chief like a Bull Connor of the 1960s? No, because history has proven their singular valor against white racism. Then why do black people in Detroit and in cities across America sit so passively by as they have done here while being openly terrorized, abused, lied to, cheated upon and so utterly misrepresented by their own people?

Liberalism is killing my people here in Detroit, and they don't even realize it.

Calling all Criminals... Come to Detroit!

[panafrican]

Poetic Justice wrote:

Artical from the washington post, by a black reporter: Part one
Are you a criminal? Do you take from others what is not yours? Do you want to live in a city where you can run wild and don't have to worry about being hassled by the police? bla bla bla.

1)Google sexual predators, clic on image.
2)Google school shooting, clic on image.
Then come back to debate.

[AsK]

panafrican wrote:

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1)Google sexual predators, clic on image.
2)Google school shooting, clic on image.
Then come back to debate.

Google City crime index... now STFU

[Poetic Justice]

Apparently you didn't understand the article

So I'll go with your change the focus off Kwame.
Should I also google roadside bombing, how about I google suicide bombers. I bet those statics in Detroit are way low compared to other parts of the world.

Maybe I should select a more specific google search. Like "Thugs name Kwame, who murder, lie under oath to the court of law, line his buddies pockets with no bid city contracts, cheat and steel tax money from hard working tax payer"

Doesn't school shooting fall under the violent crime category? If not maybe murder or shootings. I don't remember reading a seperate category for shool shooting. But there has been one in South East Michigan in a the last year or two. I can't off the top of my head recall. oh wait GOOGLE

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/02/02/detroit....

[Poetic Justice]

Another google search

December 5, 2005: Detroit, MI

An 18-year-old male was arrested after two 14-year-olds were injured when shots were fired in a crowd at a high school. A 14-year-old girl was shot in her shin and a 14-year-old male was shot in the leg. The suspect was charged with nine counts of attempted murder.



December 6, 2005: Detroit, MI

Eight to ten males ran into a high school and pepper sprayed students after a student opened a door for a former student the group was chasing. The suspects reportedly also shot the male former student.