Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

"Death by a gunshot in Detroit is as natural as it get's."

 310 murders last year (2010)
Sadly, this is quite true in Detroit. They don't call us the  Motor Murder City for nothing.

[Headline: "Mortician discovers gunshot wound in body after man's death ruled natural" - Detroit Free Press]

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Does Detroit needs martial law?

Unbelievable. The Detroit News reports today that from Friday morning until Sunday morning (a 24 hour period) 15 people were shot and six died in Detroit's neighborhoods. Martial law is about all that's left to the state government to reign in all the violence and I don't see that happening. Not yet anyhow.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Weblog

Jackson child killer gets 23 to life (Danielle Salisbury, Jackson Citizen-Patriot)
It's worth the money we're all going to pay to keep this creep (AKA Ronald Woodard) locked up for all the decades he is going to serve just to be rid of him and to prevent any further violence on his part. It's a shame it took a death (rather than three previous felonies) to put him away. Good riddance.

MSC rules that school districts can't deduct teacher salary for political contributions (MLive)
"The Supreme Court issued a completely different opinion in late December, just before Democrats lost their 4-3 majority. Republicans agreed to reconsider the case when they took control of the court."
See elections sometimes do have consequences. Unless you live in Wisconsin. Then the elections never end.
Even in safe Ann Arbor, beware of the peril of summer 'beat downs' (Rich Kinsey, annarbor.com/)
Retired AAPD detective Kinsey gives some good advice here. But ah...if you think about it you really shouldn't wander around late at night while tipsy and get in shouting matches with small groups of assholes in Ann Arbor or anywhere else for that matter either. Just sayin'.

Illegal immigrant tries to swim the St. Clair River into US (Steve Pardo, Det News)
But he's nabbed by two guys fishing who turned him over to the cops. They should let him stay. It takes a lot of dedication to swim in 60 water with just a backpack and a Speedo on. He must really want to be an American.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Sign of the times...cont'd.

How Detroiters handle neighborhood problems these days - DetFP

"[DFD]...said the home on the 5900 block of Manistique was in [the] middle of three homes firebombed late Wednesday. Broadcast reports said neighbors of the couple may have been targeted because of an ongoing feud in which the husband and wife weren’t involved." 

Speaking of a husband who died saving his wife when their home was firebombed. What makes this story "newsworthy" isn't the death and injury involved but the serial arson aspect. If the perp/s had used an AK-47 to spray the homes with bullets it would just be another news story of senseless violence and death from Detroit.