There's still plenty of money in Detroit. My mother lives there (in a highly guarded gated community). My step father was pissed off that he had to settle for a Maybach because one of his neighbors already had a Rolls Royce.

/There's money in the ghetto, trust me.

Better advice: Don't live there anymore.

untaken_name: Better advice: Don't live there anymore.

That's their plan for stopping the rise in home burglaries.

wait you're saying that theres cars that DONT get broken into in detroit?

I mean hell. If I lived there I'd probably just like put a Club on the steering wheel or think up some way to disable the steering column, lock the hood down, and leave the doors unlocked and a sign that says "Nothing in here of value, doors not locked." also run with no radio/stereo if possible.

It IS freakin detroit afterall.

This is really a load of bull. The real reason they have no parking on the streets right now is because of the North American International Autoshow. Cobo, The Joe, the casinos, private parking garages, and the city itself stand to make a ton of money off of parking. Last weekend, there was even a Wings game and a Monster Truck Show at the same time. Every lot within a mile radius of downtown was full. That's why you can't park on the street right now.

The first thing they teach you at Wayne State Orientation is not leave anything your car worth stealing, and consider investing in one of those steering wheel locks. Do those two things, and you will never get broken into, because people aren't going to sit around going through all of your stuff to find something when there is probably a car just up the road with easier to steal things sitting out. It's basically your own fault if someone breaks into your car, because you left out something that they wanted. I actually don't know anyone at all who got their car broken into in the Midtown to Downtown area, and I went to school there for 4 years. Basically, you're an idiot if you get your car broken into.

/However, this is not true by the courthouse. Everyone knows you can't take in purses or cell phones at the courthouse, so cars there are very frequently broken into, because that's where all the good stuff is.
//Also, Monster Trucks are awesome.

Erzsebetvwv:

The first thing they teach you at Wayne State Orientation is not to leave anything your car worth stealing, and toconsider investing in one of those steering wheel locks..

/I need to proofread better in the morning.

My solution would be to lock all the black people up. Problem solved.

Lived down the street from Wesleyan Univ.
Car got broken into every year it seemed about the third week of Sept.
Kid kept getting better at it though.
Year one he trashed the AC and hacked the wiring
Year two he removed the AC and cut the wiring
Year three he dropped the AC, unplugged the wiring and unscrewed the speakers
Year four it looked like I was just in for a sound system upgrade it was so damn neat. I sort of expected to see the paper floor mats.
Cops told me the money from home usually ran out by week three.
spent it on beer and drugs - college go figure

digitalpirate: There's still plenty of money in Detroit. My mother lives there (in a highly guarded gated community). My step father was pissed off that he had to settle for a Maybach because one of his neighbors already had a Rolls Royce.

/There's money in the ghetto, trust me.

Well, yeah, you'll always find pockets of money in ANY town. That doesn't mean Detroit isn't a hell hole, it just means some rich people also live in said hell hole. I live in a crappy, small, poor town, but, shockingly enough, there are still rich people here. It doesn't change the fact that the town is terrible.

I would cut off the hand of burglars...but, ya know, "deterence doesn't work" and all that hippy BS

Gdalescrboz: I would cut off the hand of burglars...but, ya know, "deterence doesn't work" and all that hippy BS

Well, it's highly doubtful anyone would ever fall afoul of three-strikes laws under your plan.

agoodamerican: CuttySupreme: My solution would be to lock all the black people up. Problem solved.

PRACTICAL SOLUTION FOR A MAJOR PROBLEM

Well I guess if you look at population percentages, which cities have the highest crime rate?

Why they gotta be parker shamin'? I'd like to see some parkers organize a parker walk!

Where are the "Detroit's not such a bad place" (because I commute once a month from 30 miles away to see a game at the stadium and stay a whole 3 hours) folks?

AngryDragon: Where are the "Detroit's not such a bad place" (because I commute once a month from 30 miles away to see a game at the stadium and stay a whole 3 hours) folks?

They're busy filing police reports after their cars were broken into.

Brown people problems.

If they have enough time to send out extra patrols to make sure people aren't parking there anymore, why don't they send some out to try and catch those who are breaking into the vehicles?

digitalpirate: There's still plenty of money in Detroit. My mother lives there (in a highly guarded gated community). My step father was pissed off that he had to settle for a Maybach because one of his neighbors already had a Rolls Royce.

/There's money in the ghetto, trust me.

Thats because it was stolen from decent, hard-working white folk.

Jesus Christ it's a lion! Get in the car!: If they have enough time to send out extra patrols to make sure people aren't parking there anymore, why don't they send some out to try and catch those who are breaking into the vehicles?

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because money.
Responding to a crime costs money and is work for the officer. Ticketing a driver for parking generates money, is easy, and is fun for the officer when he gets to watch the car get towed away.

Similar to why the police don't show up until 30 minutes after your home alarm goes off. They don't want to have to deal with some potential crazy guy. Much easier to chill out, and listen to the radio, then show up when all you have to do is take a report. (But if they can do it over the phone, so much the better). Now if there was only a way to fine the home owner for having a break-in, then they'd be there witht he quickness.

CSB:
Friend had someone break into his house through a window, and steal a bunch of his shiat. When he suggested to the cops that they could probably get a print off the window, they just blew him off and said there was so many prints on the window, they wouldn't be able to tell which one was the criminal's. (Well officer, I would assume it was the one that wasn't mine).
Fine, he says, and cleans the hell out of the windows, so they are spot free. Sure enough a week later, another break-in. This time there is a clean full hand print on the window. No other prints to get confused with. Cops say there is not enough to get any evidence off of.
Fark the police.

CSB2:
Guy I know is a mechanic. Has CCTV. Catches good video of some guy who was breaking into cars on his lot who looks directly up at the camera. Cop shows up, looks at the video, announces "I don't know who that guy is" and leaves without even taking a copy. So because the cop personaly didn't know the crook, he just says "fark it" and calls it a day.

AngryDragon: Where are the "Detroit's not such a bad place" (because I commute once a month from 30 miles away to see a game at the stadium and stay a whole 3 hours) folks?

Please welcome to the thread: Subby!

Help me Dr. It hurts when I do this

/Don't do that.

theyre too busy trying to put a white woman in jail for killing her baby.


i thought white women were automatically innocent? besides isnt abortion legal? its her baby, she can do with it whatever she wants right?

Jesus Christ it's a lion! Get in the car!: If they have enough time to send out extra patrols to make sure people aren't parking there anymore, why don't they send some out to try and catch those who are breaking into the vehicles?


Because dealing with criminals is dangerous and scary.
Ticketing tourists is usually safe.

not so CSB:
I got my car stolen from off a street in Detroit.

/lost my golf clubs, too
//and a shiat-ton of scientific data, which, thankfully, can be reproduced (with great effort) if necessary
///unlike the climate data

Erzsebetvwv: "The real reason they have no parking on the streets right now is because of the North American International Autoshow. Cobo, The Joe, the casinos, private parking garages, and the city itself stand to make a ton of money off of parking."

This. And they also stand to make some decent coin off the suburbanites they're going to ticket.

Where are you when we need you?

Can someone go get Cpl Hicks please?

Jack Black 62: Does anyone still live in Detroit that is not on the net taxpayer dole (government workers, welfare recipients, socialistic insecurity recipients)?

There are some nice neighborhoods in Detroit: Balmoral, Palmer Woods, Boston-Edison. You have doctors, lawyers, investment bankers, etc., living here. Well, at least the ones who don't live in Birmingham or Gross Pointe.

Erzsebetvwv: It's basically your own fault if someone breaks into your car

Bullshiat. It's the fault of whatever criminal decided to steal your stuff.

From my facebook status yesterday morning...
"Good times in Old Detroit. We're about to be an international laughing stock again... "

Erzsebetvwv: I actually don't know anyone at all who got their car broken into in the Midtown to Downtown area, and I went to school there for 4 years. Basically, you're an idiot if you get your car broken into.
You don't know too many people, do you? Take a look along the curb sometime at all the broken window glass. Did you ever take a look at the crime stats from wayne state? Wayne state police themselves handled 225 larcenies and 50 vehicle thefts between jan and nov 2011. This doesn't even count the people who called the detroit police (I'm still waiting for them to call me back about the time my car got broken in to - 4 years ago).
My boss had his car stolen twice, from a parking structure.

SevenizGud: /lost my golf clubs, too
//and a shiat-ton of scientific data, which, thankfully, can be reproduced (with great effort) if necessary
///unlike the climate data
BaAAAHhahAHAHAHAHha. Climate change. P.S. This is why we keep 2-3 separate copies of all of our datums.

Dimensio: Are you suggesting, then, that victims of crime simply shoot the perpetrators, rendering them immobile and thus allowing more convenient apprehension by law enforcement?

No, I am suggesting that victims of crime simple shoot the perpetrators, rendering them dead and thus allowing more convenient pick up by the ME.

ThatGuyOverThere: From my facebook status yesterday morning...
"Good times in Old Detroit. We're about to be an international laughing stock again... "

Erzsebetvwv: I actually don't know anyone at all who got their car broken into in the Midtown to Downtown area, and I went to school there for 4 years. Basically, you're an idiot if you get your car broken into.
You don't know too many people, do you? Take a look along the curb sometime at all the broken window glass. Did you ever take a look at the crime stats from wayne state? Wayne state police themselves handled 225 larcenies and 50 vehicle thefts between jan and nov 2011. This doesn't even count the people who called the detroit police (I'm still waiting for them to call me back about the time my car got broken in to - 4 years ago).
My boss had his car stolen twice, from a parking structure.

SevenizGud: /lost my golf clubs, too
//and a shiat-ton of scientific data, which, thankfully, can be reproduced (with great effort) if necessary
///unlike the climate data
BaAAAHhahAHAHAHAHha. Climate change. P.S. This is why we keep 2-3 separate copies of all of our datums.

Yup. It is pretty much a hellhole aside from the people willing to stick that shiat out.

I lived in Detroit for a summer (2010) and had 4 break-ins and attempted break-ins in less than 3 months. I drove an old beat up pickup that was worth as much as scrap as it was operating. Folks in the same neighborhood had cars with tires worth more than my truck that never got touched. Apparently old Chevy's are easier to get into.

ThatGuyOverThere: From my facebook status yesterday morning...
"Good times in Old Detroit. We're about to be an international laughing stock again... "

Erzsebetvwv: I actually don't know anyone at all who got their car broken into in the Midtown to Downtown area, and I went to school there for 4 years. Basically, you're an idiot if you get your car broken into.
You don't know too many people, do you? Take a look along the curb sometime at all the broken window glass. Did you ever take a look at the crime stats from wayne state? Wayne state police themselves handled 225 larcenies and 50 vehicle thefts between jan and nov 2011. This doesn't even count the people who called the detroit police (I'm still waiting for them to call me back about the time my car got broken in to - 4 years ago).
My boss had his car stolen twice, from a parking structure.

It is true that my information is anecdotal only, and Wayne State's crime rate is pretty comparable with Eastern, which is in Ypsi, which is pretty scary in and of itself. I was also only talking about the midtown to downtown area. I know plenty of people in the neighborhoods that have been broken into.

drdonks: I lived in Detroit for a summer (2010) and had 4 break-ins and attempted break-ins in less than 3 months. I drove an old beat up pickup that was worth as much as scrap as it was operating. Folks in the same neighborhood had cars with tires worth more than my truck that never got touched. Apparently old Chevy's are easier to get into.

It does depend on the kind of vehicle. Wayne State used to send out reports every year of the most broken into/stolen cars on campus. Old pick ups and Jeeps were always on the list. They probably still send send the list out, actually, but I don't get it anymore.

This is why we need the show Detroit 187 back. The police security detail was remarkable (the police would watch the filming of out door scenes). For every one actor cop you had at least five real cops watching from patrol cars. Set up film crews around the city and we would all feel safe.

Jack Black 62: Does anyone still live in Detroit that is not on the net taxpayer dole (government workers, welfare recipients, socialistic insecurity recipients)?

Yes. There are a bunch of artsy fartsy types, hipsters and whatnot, who think it's earthy and bohemian to live in the D. They're truly a bunch of dorks.

A couple of years ago over the summer two cars were broken into outside of my apartment. Only one of the two cars had no broken windows, no damaged doors and only a shiatty woot-off power inverter stolen. That car happened to be mine so I just let the cops dust for prints which they said is a waste of time then drove off to work.

The other car had three broken windows, two doors destroyed, and a laptop stolen from the car with damages totaling around 2000 dollars. Moral of the story, don't keep anything in your car and don't bother locking it.

/CSB

Maybe people there should invest in these (new window)

cloister the stupid: Moral of the story, don't keep anything in your car and don't bother locking it.
/CSB

Yes, but then the bums will have orgies inside of it if you leave it unlocked.

ThatGuyOverThere: cloister the stupid: Moral of the story, don't keep anything in your car and don't bother locking it.
/CSB

Yes, but then the bums will have orgies inside of it if you leave it unlocked.