I heard on the Warren Pierce show yesterday morning that the big, big "block" parties that are in the news lately are actually hosted by drug dealers.

They say that they are providing a much-needed recreational outlet for Detroiters who don't have anywhere else to go for fun.

The widespread neighborhood knowledge of who is hosting these parties must be behind the comment from a family whose family member was shot last week that the "Police Should Have Been Here."

I ws mystifued by that rant because, who has the police hanging around at a party - but now I see why the commentator expected that police would be present. I guess that everyone in attendance understood about the hosts, but not us unaware newspaper readers.

So now, in Detroit, block parties should be shut down.