Armed robber kills while stealing purses

[Buy American]

We need more decoy purses with exploding dye packs.

We need a fully staffed police department with lots of authority instead of all the perps having so many rights, we need honest politicians who will do what they say they will do, and we need the death penalty.

[swan]

Hmm, opinions will vary here. I think the element of 'surprise' may be better for stopping the criminal seeking helpless prey to find them not so helpless!

We had this with S.T.R.E.S.S. but the people didn't want it.

[Detroit Stylin]

We had this with S.T.R.E.S.S. but the people didn't want it.

Becuase officers were murdering innocent black men with impunity....tell the whole history, Thats why Young abolished it....

[Patrick]

“It’s always something at this club like every other week,” said neighbor LaBarbara Karney, 18. “It’s scary for me because I live here.”

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/C...z/-/index.html

This place place sounds like it is nothing but trouble. Probably the last place where a 21 year old college girl should be at night.

[Buy American]

Becuase officers were murdering innocent black men with impunity....tell the whole history, Thats why Young abolished it....

Isn't that exactly what the black men are doing to each other right now?

[313WX]

We had this with S.T.R.E.S.S. but the people didn't want it.

Maybe "people didn't want it" because its whole structure trampled over the rights Detroiters are guaranteed in that tattered sheet of tissue paper known as the constitution [[rights Detroiters deserve just as much as suburbanites).

[Zacha341]

STRESS was not without it's problems, however we have a crime wave that is killing youth and citizens in general nearly every week, sometimes multiples in a week and that's just what is reported! It's so crazy the morticians are on the news reporting a huge surge in their business:

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news...e-with-hearses

We've got to get on top of this on some responsive, effective manner or what will come will be make STRESS seem light weight!

Becuase officers were murdering innocent black men with impunity....tell the whole history, Thats why Young abolished it....

[Brian1979]

I think we are all well aware of Detroit's needs, more police, more jobs, an improved city council/mayor, a mass transit system and really Detroit needs these things very badly.

As I stated when Snyder and Bing scrapped the light rail project I'm done with Detroit and Chicago looks like a much better place for me, it's got everything that a real major city is suppose to have unlike Detroit.

[firstandten]

Crimes of opportunity are tough to stop. I don't know how many more police would need to be on the street or even if you could have enough police on the street to stop a crime like that. Detroit is a big place and even if you flooded certain locations with police officers, given limited resources. I don't know if the area where the young lady was killed would be one of them.

I guess I would like to see a little more from Bing about this. I would like to see a little more leadership from him on this issue, I would say he should think outside of the box, but Bing is not a outside the box thinker so that would be useless.

Think what you will of Mayor Nutter of Philly but at least he is laying down challenges to parents and children involved in the flashmob incidents and he started a weekend curfew for teenagers. At least one could say he is at least trying to deal with the issue.

I think that we may at some point be faced with a permanent curfew for those under 21 with some parential accountablity action to be taken at some point.

Granted there are long term systemic issues that need to be addressed we are looking at generations even if they can be fixed, so short term fixes are all that we are left with for now.

[rjk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIOq...eature=related

Wow, this guy [[Mayor Nutter) doesn't pull any punches.

[FlyingJ]

Funny, I was just reading the old @detroit thread on STRESS/Big Four units-after a conversation w/my dad was saying they saved his life back in the day, now there's no deterrence-or OCP

[One Shot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIOq...eature=related

Wow, this guy [[Mayor Nutter) doesn't pull any punches.

He want to be Mayor here? Straight shooter! Too bad most don't want to be the person he describes because it's not "cool".

[ejames01]

At least they caught this demon

http://www.freep.com/article/2012012...Claudia-Benson

[Zacha341]

Yes, someone broke the 'no snitchin' cycle on this one perhaps.....

At least they caught this demon

http://www.freep.com/article/2012012...Claudia-Benson

[401don]

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...text|FRONTPAGE

64% ahead of last year's pace! I guess, it's better to just say it's roughly a murder per day which is on pace for all of last year. However we all know murders are normally much lower in winter.

[Detroit Stylin]

Isn't that exactly what the black men are doing to each other right now?

So you had no problem with white cops murdering innocent black men then eh? its either that, or you are a closet hood wearer, or you really cannot read...one of those three but I digress....

[Meddle]

^^^^ Geeze Dude ... Really? You gotta go there?

That says more about you than the other guy.

[evergreen]

Nothing better demonstrated the withdrawal of the DPD from the streets of Detroit than the confrontation in front of 36th District Court today between the family of the victim and the alleged killer's family. This went on for several minutes with NO police intervention even though one participant threw a TV camera tripod at a vacant police squad car.

Unbelievable.

[Cincinnati_Kid]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, though I may get flamed, it's time for the national guard or something to that effect. This probably wasn't a crackhead, more like a gang initiation. The gangs are taking over Detroit and that is a very scary thought.

Stromberg2

I saw on the news tonight that the killer was 35 years old. Both families were arguing outside the courthouse after his hearing. I highly doubt he was in a gang. Another "........." to add to the already overcrowded penal system.

[Cincinnati_Kid]

I think we are all well aware of Detroit's needs, more police, more jobs, an improved city council/mayor, a mass transit system and really Detroit needs these things very badly.

As I stated when Snyder and Bing scrapped the light rail project I'm done with Detroit and Chicago looks like a much better place for me, it's got everything that a real major city is suppose to have unlike Detroit.

Chicago has it's share of crime as well, you just don't hear about it. And it's 3 times the size of Detroit. Good luck.

[RaumVogel]

My grandparents house was in that neighborhood. it was very well kept in the 60's and 70's.

/ I just Googled it...still very well kept.

[Ravine]

We need more decoy purses with exploding dye packs.

Finally, a post without an attached link, and it's a dumb-ass slice of frivolous tripe like that.
With a goddam smiley-face attached.

[Zacha341]

Was that the folks that were so matter of fact [[his family) and broke a leg off a camera tripod... I am going to go check. I saw at bit of something on channel 7.

I saw on the news tonight that the killer was 35 years old. Both families were arguing outside the courthouse after his hearing. I highly doubt he was in a gang. Another "........." to add to the already overcrowded penal system.

[erikd]

The city has no hope except for little pockets downtown. What a shithole.

Thanks for your insight, Steve.

If the city is a shithole, and has no hope, what do we do about it?

[Zacha341]

Yeah, there was some mania - very sad as the frustration boils over [[the court house security was absent stating they don't have responsibility for what goes on outside the court house):

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/...used-as-weapon

Was that the folks that were so matter of fact [[his family) and broke a leg off a camera tripod... I am going to go check. I saw at bit of something on channel 7.