Originally Posted by
Bham1982
Everyone knows that Belle Isle was a huge gathering place for African Americans, both for family-style picnicing and nighttime [[often rather rowdy) crusing. And everyone knows that the state takeover was going to curtail these activities because of the resulting fees and the enforcement.
And it is selective enforcement. If you go to a Tigers game, the surrounding streets are a carnival of drunken whites from the burbs. If you wanted to catch drunk drivers you could just put sobriety checkpoints at all the freeway on-ramps, and probably half of the cars would be seized.