Detroit — A group of teens who tossed firecrackers downtown during the fireworks show Monday night set off a series of events that had police and citizens worried about gunshots, causing hundreds of people to flee, with some being injured in the stampede, a Detroit Police official told The News.It was part of a chaotic, confusing night that another police source said was marred by several brawls, one of which ended when a man who was fighting about a mile east of downtown pulled out a gun and accidentally shot himself in the leg.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...#ixzz2XKsQcqo2
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Bottom line...this isn't gonna be solved with more cops. Also notable, it's not gonna be solved with fewer cops.
The only solution I know is to divide the downtown areas into segments with impenetrable perimeter security and then intense security screening in the entryways.
Streets will need to be blocked off a la the Grand Prix back when it was downtown, and there should be highly controlled entryways/exitways into and out of the green zones.
A few idiots ruined it for everyone else.
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