We think a lot alike. This story is perplexing without additional info. If it was legit random...super weird. No idea how a couple guys just wind up at Lincoln/Cranbrook that early in the morning.
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If those suspects rob and man from Birmingham and took his car to Detroit to hide out. Must to be two black males. Here's my theory that led to a robbery:
1. Someone student in the high school knows about the fancy car and went to Detroit ghettos telling its friends about the car so they can go case the area and steal it.
2. Just some black males donning their hoodies decided to case the suburbs looking the rich white folks goodies to steal. Once they spot guy in the fancy car, they pulled out their guns and started robbing the poor guy. Then took the car for joyride to Detroit to hide out from the cops.
The alternative to running from bad guys with guns:
http://chamspage.blogspot.com/2013/0...homicides.html
The madness is happening everywhere, and in the safest of safest communities. For Birmingham it's an episode, for Detroit and unfortunately other large cities, it's a regular occurrence. It shouldn't be that way for either but the undertones of your post suggest that you have something against Birmingham.
While maybe not quite a tipping point [[yet), I could not agree with you any more. The whole bit "my community's safe so let Detroit rot" is old. Maybe if the disparity of 12k/student at Seaholm could even out with the 6.8k/student in Detroit, or the surplus L. Brooks brags about could somehow be used to supplement the DFD or DPD shortages, this region would get a whole lot more out of cooperation as opposed to the radical divisiveness we live with now.
Yeah, right.
Please cite your source for the per pupil funding at those two districts. I swear I've read DPS students are around $10k per head. That said, there are studies that show very little correlation between pupil spending and success in the classroom. Seaholm's tennis courts and track, and decked out athletic equipment and new Apple computers aren't the reason their algebra scores are higher. And let's not get into the decades of corruption at DPS. Give them more money? It'll never see the kids.
Not really a viable theory as to why they would steal a Grand Marquis. A GM/Crown Vic with its V8 has only about 220hp. Compare that to a 2010 V6 Camaro has just over 300hp. Why, even a V6 Taurus has 260+ hp. And you look much cooler crusin' around in the Camaro/Mustang [[or even Taurus) rather than the Grand Marquis.
I agree something is missing from the public version of this story, but your theory doesn't explain it either.
I am curious why the police wanted to keep the schools closed. Seems like an overreaction to me, but maybe they had some reason I am unaware of.
The types of crimes I'm talking about are crimes like this one, brazen crimes that are being committed more frequently in the suburbs. In the past maybe someone breaks into the maintenance man's car and steals his radio or the car, but he wouldn't have been held up at gunpoint at 5:00 in the morning going into the school. Never said crimes didn't happen in the suburbs.
Detroit spends 18k per pupil, Birmingham 13k.
Oops.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/md...2_422158_7.pdf
Per-pupil funding in Birmingham and Detroit is almost exactly the same. There is very little difference in per-pupil funding between districts in Michigan. And your second point is ridiculous. Because Oakland is well managed and Wayne a disaster, Oakland should be punished by giving its surplus to Wayne, so that they can give out more 100k pensions to retired 40 year olds?
The problem is that you both missed the point. Stop looking at raw numbers and failures v. successes. Until this area comes together as a region [[do we need 74, 138, whatever separate school districts, police forces, fire departments, DPWs, you name it) this area will continue to fail.
Big picture, y'all.
And, oh, BTW, a simple google search will yield the following:
2009 Birmingham per pupil funding $ 12.4K
2009 Detroit per pupil funding 7.6K
Source: Detroit News
And as for your premise that there is no correlation between funding and test scores, a simple google search will yield that there are myriads of studies on either sides of that arguement. But you [[plural) are such intelligent beings that you must believe your own "holier-than-thou" rhetoric.
So please, keep up the great work and name calling.
2009 Birmingham per pupil funding $ 12.4K
2009 Detroit per pupil funding 7.6K
These numbers are wrong. The two districts have roughly similar funding. They both receive the exact same allocation from the State, but Detroit gets extra from the Feds for Title I funding.
Bham1982, was this disturbance brought up during afternoon tea at the Townsend? How horrified are the blue bloods?