Will it make anyone feel safer if a cop moves back into Detroit and lives in your neighborhood?

I don't think so. The officer who is taking Mayor Bing up on the offer to buy a renovated home in Detroit will move up in the ranks very fast...faster than his counterparts. He will be on Bings and Godbee's radar from now on and will more than likely receive some special favors because of the publicity this has generated.

The cop stated yesterday that he will look up people's driveways, come home in different ways each night to protect the neighborhood. Is he going to bring home a police cruiser? Is he going to wear his uniform outside on his off days for everyone to see that he's a cop? Is he going to run to his neighbor's home if there is a domestic dispute, a robbery, a shooting? Will he want his neighbors coming over to his house at any hour of the day or night to report crime? If he has a family and cares about their safety, he will remain very low key and not get involved, that's what most cops who live in the City do right now.

Godbee needs to get the recruits that are waiting to be hired and start another class and get more police on the streets. There are at least 50 of them, rushed through the hiring process, required to take one test after another [[and at their own expense I might add), many times because the tests are only good for so many months. Now, they are left hanging, not knowing if they are going to be hired or not. The DPD needs to get off their a$$ and get some people on the streets, that's what Detroit needs.