Border City Crime: Ferndale Phramacy Robbed Twice - Closing

[corktownyuppie]

Ferndale should close and dead-end all residential streets leading to 8 Mile, the way they do in much of the Pointes along Mack.

Limit access to Woodward and Livernois, and then patrol the hell out of those corridors.

Make it very clear that Ferndale isn't friendly or welcoming to all. If you're there for business or pleasure, that's great, but if you don't have a purpose, you aren't welcome.

It isn't nice or egalitarian, but the city's long-term vitality depends on this.

Yeah, I don't think being nice/egalitarian takes a higher priority than controlling access and making a place more secure. There was some backlash when Palmer Woods announced their private security force.

I don't get it. When crime has gotten to this point, people should *want* better security, not fight it. Let's quit fighting our Vietnam-era fights about establishment vs. the individual. No one is advocating that police "shoot first, ask questions later". Routing all traffic through one central point and then securing the hell out of that point serves everybody.