hey, it worked for Camden...

Hey, did you guys see that video of the cop planting drugs?

Yes, because more cops means less crime.

One of many reasons Detroit is so broke is people buying back their foreclosed homes to avoid paying property taxes. Link (new window)

Nothing new. They do it with the teachers with lower seniority all the time. Weird way of handling funds. Very stressful for some that they chose new careers.

FTFA: "However, sources say the move is a procedural matter, and that they do not expect the layoff notices will actually be acted upon. At issue is federal grants used for funding the department. Currently, the department received universal hiring grants from the Department of Justice."


Sounds like some commie bullshiat to me.

So, how about we take all of the jobs required to 'repurpose' funds and eliminate them? Why does red tape cost so damn much?

bojon: They now hope that funding will continue next year

Dont we all?

They shouldn't have spent so much on the new police cruisers...

Fewer cops = fewer arrests = fewer convictions = lower crime rate

Genius

No, they are using the federal money to pay current officers instead of hiring additional officers like they were supposed to. They will transfer the cost of maintaining status quo to the feds and take the internal money that should have gone to the police salaries and give it to some corrupt contractor who will kick some of it back to corrupt politicians.

Or maybe I'm just being cynical.

Detroit is done cooked.

Time to start over with a new city and coffee cups.

What would happen if Detroit were to disincorporate and turn everything over to the county? They could incorporate again later when the economics indicate a City of Detroit would be sustainable.

It's Detroit.
Of course firing police officers will lower the crime rate.
I mean police usually aren't prosecuted or punished even if blatantly caught doing criminal actions. So yeah, at the worst, firing police officers will add all the crime to your charts that the accounting trick that is political corruption and the blue line of gangsters has hid.

lack of warmth: Nothing new. They do it with the teachers with lower seniority all the time. Weird way of handling funds. Very stressful for some that they chose new careers.

Yep. So not looking forward to that.

/education major

Cops are being fired because unions and government interference in the free market ruined Detroit.

Yep. That's what happens when an area is populated chiefly by non-producing social parasites (no money for public services; such as law enforcement). Don't let me stop you from blaming the city though. After all, police officers generally work for free and their equipment comes from their mystical green lantern rings, so it doesn't cost anything either (and if it did, hey dollars are green!).

Black people, if left to their own devices, will destroy anything and everything. This is simply a fact of nature. Go ahead and try to give me even one example of a prosperous region that's chiefly occupied by black people. On right. You can't.

Pop quiz time! Which one doesn't belong:

The Loch Ness Monster
Sasquatch
A Prosperous Black City
Water

Also:

It's so cooooold in tha D (because I didn't pay the utilities)!

What are they supposed to do? Pay them in f*cking rusty rebar and graffitti'd cinder blocks? That city got ruined decades ago. They can't even afford to tear down the rotting buildings.

Detroit is going back to nature. Let it be a warning for the potential future of the rest of America's great cities.

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Came here to post this.

/leaving happy

Those old Ford Taurus were great cars, once they fixed the transmission problems.

AbortionsForAll: Black people, if left to their own devices, will destroy anything and everything. This is simply a fact of nature. Go ahead and try to give me even one example of a prosperous region that's chiefly occupied by black people.

AbortionsForAll: wharrrrgarble

0/10. Your handle gives you away.

AbortionsForAll: Also:

It's so cooooold in tha D (because I didn't pay the utilities)!

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I absolutely hate you for reminding me of that video. Have you no compassion, man?

/How the fark we sposed to keep peace?

TomD9938: AbortionsForAll: Black people, if left to their own devices, will destroy anything and everything. This is simply a fact of nature. Go ahead and try to give me even one example of a prosperous region that's chiefly occupied by black people.

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I noticed you gave in to your confusion before answering my quiz, Dr. Gonzo.

And other guy: Yes I am a troll. No, I am not trolling right now.

untaken_name: AbortionsForAll: Also:

It's so cooooold in tha D (because I didn't pay the utilities)!

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I absolutely hate you for reminding me of that video. Have you no compassion, man?

/How the fark we sposed to keep peace?

I will never allow the world to forget that abomination.

AbortionsForAll: I noticed you gave in to your confusion before answering my quiz

I was going to caption but decided against it.

You'd be Duke in this scene, talking up your plans of renting out little Christina to an entire convention of fat, horny, middle aged cops.

Of course Duke was trolling his attorney as well.

AbortionsForAll: Yep. That's what happens when an area is populated chiefly by non-producing social parasites (no money for public services; such as law enforcement). Don't let me stop you from blaming the city though. After all, police officers generally work for free and their equipment comes from their mystical green lantern rings, so it doesn't cost anything either (and if it did, hey dollars are green!).

Black people, if left to their own devices, will destroy anything and everything. This is simply a fact of nature. Go ahead and try to give me even one example of a prosperous region that's chiefly occupied by black people. On right. You can't.

Pop quiz time! Which one doesn't belong:

The Loch Ness Monster
Sasquatch
A Prosperous Black City
Water

Barbados is pretty nice. Jamaica is not too bad but it's a bit higher (worse) up on the Quality of Life Index. Trinidad and Tobago? Those aren't bad.

Yeah and black people destroy everything. I think you could visit some cities in Kenya, South Africa, etc. that while poor and underdeveloped aren't exactly "destroyed".

Here's a destroyed city: Grozny (all caucausian, chuckles)
Here's a destroyed city: Beirut (all middle easterner, farkstick)

That's just a couple recent examples. You only have to go back about 75 years to find a WHOLE bunch of "white," destroyed cities and the corpses of about tens of millions of white people who killed each other with great ferocity and technology.

AbortionsForAll: untaken_name: AbortionsForAll: Also:

It's so cooooold in tha D (because I didn't pay the utilities)!

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I absolutely hate you for reminding me of that video. Have you no compassion, man?

/How the fark we sposed to keep peace?

I will never allow the world to forget that abomination.

Surely you cannot condemn an entire race based on one lousy music video ?

Primum: AbortionsForAll: Yep. That's what happens when an area is populated chiefly by non-producing social parasites (no money for public services; such as law enforcement). Don't let me stop you from blaming the city though. After all, police officers generally work for free and their equipment comes from their mystical green lantern rings, so it doesn't cost anything either (and if it did, hey dollars are green!).

Black people, if left to their own devices, will destroy anything and everything. This is simply a fact of nature. Go ahead and try to give me even one example of a prosperous region that's chiefly occupied by black people. On right. You can't.

Pop quiz time! Which one doesn't belong:

The Loch Ness Monster
Sasquatch
A Prosperous Black City
Water

Barbados is pretty nice. Jamaica is not too bad but it's a bit higher (worse) up on the Quality of Life Index. Trinidad and Tobago? Those aren't bad.

Yeah and black people destroy everything. I think you could visit some cities in Kenya, South Africa, etc. that while poor and underdeveloped aren't exactly "destroyed".

Here's a destroyed city: Grozny (all caucausian, chuckles)
Here's a destroyed city: Beirut (all middle easterner, farkstick)

That's just a couple recent examples. You only have to go back about 75 years to find a WHOLE bunch of "white," destroyed cities and the corpses of about tens of millions of white people who killed each other with great ferocity and technology.

I think it's obvious enough how far you're reaching with your "examples". Seriously dude. Trinidad? Jamaica? Really? Those are lofty examples of man-kind's social achievements? Keep trying.

And no. I don't condemn a race based on a horrid music video. I condemn a race based on observations made whilst living in close proximity to Camden and Philadelphia.

AbortionsForAll: TomD9938: AbortionsForAll: Black people, if left to their own devices, will destroy anything and everything. This is simply a fact of nature. Go ahead and try to give me even one example of a prosperous region that's chiefly occupied by black people.

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I noticed you gave in to your confusion before answering my quiz, Dr. Gonzo.

And other guy: Yes I am a troll. No, I am not trolling right now.

I kind of want to believe you are...otherwise I have to reset my sarcasm filters which is a monumental pain in the arse.
To be honest; I can't answer your quiz for certain. Isn't Trinidad supposed to be pleasant though?


/no, I don't visit the politics tab

And notice how you're the one immediaely resorting to personal insults. Interesting...

One Bad Apple: AbortionsForAll: untaken_name: AbortionsForAll: Also:

It's so cooooold in tha D (because I didn't pay the utilities)!

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I absolutely hate you for reminding me of that video. Have you no compassion, man?

/How the fark we sposed to keep peace?

I will never allow the world to forget that abomination.

Surely you cannot condemn an entire race based on one lousy music video ?

I'm going out on a limb here - you haven't watched the video, have you?

/I don't want to condemn an entire race
//just the entire cast of that video.
///and I'd condemn them to an eternal loop of that video

Twist2005:

...otherwise I have to reset my sarcasm filters which is a monumental pain in the arse.





Have you considered relocating them to someplace easier to reach ?

I do know that the Caribbean has the second highest aids infection rate (to sub-Saharan Africa). I also know that white people who stray from their resorts are liable to get mugged at machete point.

If you have at least one working limb, you have no excuse for living in Detroit anyway.

AbortionsForAll: And no. I don't condemn a race based on a horrid music video. I condemn a race based on observations made whilst living in close proximity to Camden and Philadelphia.

You condemn a cultural fiction only very marginally based in biology.
"Race" is only as powerful as a determinant as people's perceptions (and resulting actions and attitudes) allow it to be. I suppose you hate Italians for not being white enough too right?
You might as well be arguing that blue eyed people are inferior to green eyed people or something else based on cosmetics.

untaken_name:

I'm going out on a limb here - you haven't watched the video, have you?

/I don't want to condemn an entire race
//just the entire cast of that video.
///and I'd condemn them to an eternal loop of that video

I saw a clip on Tosh it was enough to get the point. I've forced myself to watch the full version of 2girls1cup and I won't watch more than 10 seconds of that dreck.