I don't know. I'm a Detroiter. I'm more likely to feel like a stranger in my city when a 20 unruly teenagers are running around and yelling with no consideration for the safety or the comfort of people around them.
I recognize that you don't want to be in the middle of a police state. But that conclusion assumes that you can have a peaceful, safe, environment without groups of hoodlums running around acting a fool and causing chaos without a heavy police presence.
Detroit has proven that our people can't handle that much responsibility.
So if we want to get rid of the police state, then we have to find a way to change the way people behave. If we can't do that, then we don't have a lot of other choices. I refuse to allow an environment where a group of unruly kids are so overwhelming in number that they can intimidate everyone in their path. Lord of the Flies, indeed.
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