Originally Posted by
nain rouge
What's funny is that Richmond, VA has a Belle Isle park in the James River, and it too has illicit, unsupervised beaches. James River, like the Detroit River, has dangerous areas with strong currents. Yet the cops in Richmond don't give a hoot where you swim, and nothing bad ever comes of it.
It just blows my mind that Detroit cops continually waste time on Hippie Beach. There are tons of neighborhoods on the east side that have open air drug markets. They could go cruise those, but no, they're fanatical about swimmers instead. And if they don't already know where the drug markets are [[doubtful), all they'd have to do is catch one teenager and tell the kid they'd let him off he says where the drugs are at. Hell, the kid would probably have a blunt in his hand for easy identification.