Quote Originally Posted by Detroitnerd View Post
Neighborhood watch and citizen's patrols are better, but we all know that PW residents are probably too rich to bother driving around or talking to each other...
"better" how? And I'm guessing that in the last 10 years as property values have plummeted, many middle class people live in Palmer Woods. It still isn't Grosse Pointe Shores, and there are some modest houses there.

I am a volunteer patroller and have been for years. However residents of stable communities have jobs, families, and hobbies, like the rest of humanity, and cannot dedicate all their time to patrolling. We have a paid patrol as well as a volunteer one. It helps alleviate some of the burden from the residents who have enough responsibilities trying to maintain their neighborhoods, often with no/only sporadic help from the City.

This is definitely a selling point and definitely a deterrent. This isn't the movies; criminals in this city are actually just low-life, loser pussies. The last thing most of them want is any kind of attention or confrontation from anyone. If you were a low-life criminal, and given the choice of ripping off a neighborhood with this guy cruising around, or one where no one was paying attention, which would you choose?