[Reopened!] Kercheval at Wayburn will be closed to traffic in Grosse Pointe Park.

[Zacha341]

Very well stated and reasoned comment. The 'wink-wink' justification attitude towards crime so long as it's happening to a certain demographic is crazy! The blow-back of that thinking speaks in part to why we have so much crime in Detroit. As you point out some of the suburbs are not a 100% demographic. And black people are complaining about the potential of rising crime.

Thieves aren't motivated by revenge politics per se, at least not to anything sustainable towards any tangible social change [[sic). The 'goods' they bring back from their quarry will be re-stolen in the city! Thieves and criminals as I've said elsewhere on this site mainly seek an 'easy' mark...

I really don't want to be their next mark - again! I know I'll NOT BE SPARED because I'm not white, or bluehaired!

This has nothing to do with conservative, or white, or WASP bluehairs.

You think liberals, or gays, or African Americans prefer declining property values or rising crime?

Southfield is overwhelmingly black and Democrat, and practically the entire civic discourse is based around stopping more Section 8 folks from moving in and bringing down their property values.

There's a proposed WalMart in Southfield that has folks raging mad and angry about low income folks coming in and shopping. These angry homeowners are almost all black. You can't really blame folks for wanting to protect their assets and their families.