Body found along Dequindre Cut

**dtowncitylover** · October-26-15, 09:39 AM

There also appears to be a homicide in Royal Oak this morning, the second in two weeks. Crime can happen in the "safest" of places.

**Bham1982** · October-26-15, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by dtowncitylover

There also appears to be a homicide in Royal Oak this morning, the second in two weeks. Crime can happen in the "safest" of places.

Where is this claimed Royal Oak homicide? No note of it in the local papers.

There has been one homicide in Royal Oak this year, and I don't think anyone would claim that Royal Oak is among the safest places in the region. It's pretty average, overall, not Highland Park and not Oakland Twp. Royal Oak is right on Woodward and 696, which draw crime, has some crime hotspots [[downtown and seedy motels) and is fairly close to high crime cities like Detroit, Royal Oak Twp. and Oak Park.

Also, the reflexive defense mechanism of "feverishly find some crime in the suburbs whenever a crime happens in Detroit, just so it evens out" is all you need to know. Detroit is dangerous, and everyone knows it, even the boosters.

**dtowncitylover** · October-26-15, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

Where is this claimed Royal Oak homicide? No note of it in the local papers.

There has been one homicide in Royal Oak this year, and I don't think anyone would claim that Royal Oak is among the safest places in the region. It's pretty average, overall, not Highland Park and not Oakland Twp.

Also, the reflexive defense mechanism of "feverishly find some crime in the suburbs whenever a crime happens in Detroit, just so it evens out" is all you need to know. Detroit is dangerous, and everyone knows it, even the boosters.

GIYF [[Maybe you should join the 21st century and start getting the latest news from more up date resources like on line media outlets, not the newspaper)

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/r...ation/36047158

I wasn't speaking about Detroit overall, just the Dequindre Cut which is being touted as safe.

**Bham1982** · October-26-15, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by dtowncitylover

GIYF [[Maybe you should join the 21st century and start getting the latest news from more up date resources like on line media outlets, not the newspaper)

Oh, boy, someone's getting desperate. Tell us more about this "online" thing. And yeah, you're still wrong.

The media all reported the shooting last night, but they just reported the death minutes ago, long after you claimed that there was a homicide. Your own link shows this. So you're either an insider working at Beaumont or a liar, because nothing was updated to homicide until minutes ago.

Originally Posted by dtowncitylover

I wasn't speaking about Detroit overall, just the Dequindre Cut which is being touted as safe.

Last I checked the Dequindre Cut is in Detroit, and not protected by special magical powers. If Detroit is unsafe, then the public infrastructure within Detroit is unsafe.

**dtowncitylover** · October-26-15, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

Oh, boy, someone's getting desperate. Tell us more about this "online" thing. And yeah, you're still wrong.

The media all reported the shooting last night, but they just reported the death minutes ago, long after you claimed that there was a homicide. Your own link shows this. So you're either an insider working at Beaumont or a liar, because nothing was updated to homicide until minutes ago.

Last I checked the Dequindre Cut is in Detroit, and not protected by special magical powers. If Detroit is unsafe, then the public infrastructure within Detroit is unsafe.

I do appreciate your aggressive tone. It shows your best. I read it as he had already died. He is now dead. It now stands that there has been two murders in Royal Oak in two weeks. There has been one murder in 6 years in the Dequindre Cut.

Yes the DC is in Detroit, but it has cameras and I believe emergency call stations which make seem like it's safer than biking around any other part of Detroit, where cameras and readily available call stations are scarce.

**Honky Tonk** · October-26-15, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by dtowncitylover

It now stands that there has been two murders in Royal Oak in two weeks. There has been one murder in 6 years in the Dequindre Cut.

Let's compare apples to apples, shall we? There have been 2 murders in RO in 3 years, how many murders have there been in Detroit in 3 years? What percentage of those have been actually solved? I'm glad there has only been "one" murder in the DC, and not more. I also question, with all the cameras and call boxes, why no one saw what was happening, and why the person's body was "discovered".

**dtowncitylover** · October-26-15, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Honky Tonk

Let's compare apples to apples, shall we? There have been 2 murders in RO in 3 years, how many murders have there been in Detroit in 3 years? What percentage of those have been actually solved? I'm glad there has only been "one" murder in the DC, and not more. I also question, with all the cameras and call boxes, why no one saw what was happening, and why the person's body was "discovered".

This is true. I guess I was trying to compare relatively safe place to other relatively safe places.

**iheartthed** · October-26-15, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Honky Tonk

Let's compare apples to apples, shall we? There have been 2 murders in RO in 3 years, how many murders have there been in Detroit in 3 years? What percentage of those have been actually solved? I'm glad there has only been "one" murder in the DC, and not more. I also question, with all the cameras and call boxes, why no one saw what was happening, and why the person's body was "discovered".

It was a suicide. We're back to zero murders ever taking place on the Dequindre Cut.

**MSUguy** · October-26-15, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

Last I checked the Dequindre Cut is in Detroit, and not protected by special magical powers. If Detroit is unsafe, then the public infrastructure within Detroit is unsafe.

Crime in Detroit is not distributed equally, some parts of Detroit are safer than others suggest that they're aren't safe parts of the city is silly.

**1953** · October-26-15, 10:17 AM

When I first heard about the Dequindre Cut, my first concern was that it was too secluded to be particularly safe - it has little natural surveillance due to its sunken location in less traveled areas of the city. I have been pleasantly surprised that it has seemed relatively without incident to date, and hope it soon returns to that status.