Police: 'Enter Detroit at your own risk"

[David2012]

Just before the Detroit tiger's game Saturday night, police were handing out fliers telling fans--

'Enter Detroit at your own risk'!

The police are mad about long hours & cuts in staff. So part of this is scare tactics to get people to vote more funding for them. But the truth be told, people do enter places like Detroit & Chicago now days at their own risk. People have let their government disarm them so that their lives are at risk because they are facing well-armed criminals and there are very few police officers to show up after a crime has been commited in order to draw the chalk line around the body. The rule is that police don't stop crime, they investigate it!

I thank God that we have the Concealed Carry / Open Carry laws here in Oklahoma!
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http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/1...icers-tell-tigers-fans-enter-at-your-own-risk

Detroit police to Tigers fans: "Enter at your own risk!"
Posted: Oct 06, 2012 10:13 PM CDT
Updated: Oct 06, 2012 10:27 PM CDT By Ronnie Dahl, FOX 2 News

DETROIT, Mich. (WJBK) -

The Detroit Tigers won game one of their division series against the A's on Saturday. As fans poured into Comerica Park, they were greeted by about 400 off-duty Detroit police officers with a political message.
Click on the video player to watch Ronnie Dahl's report.

Officers handed out fliers saying when you come to Detroit you "enter at your own risk." They also urged people to vote yes on Proposal 2.
"We're not discouraging people from coming, I love the city, I want them to realize we don't have enough man hours," said union president Joe Duncan. "I don't think the city is going to get same officer 8 hours a day as you do for 12 hours a day."
Detroit police officers are working long hours. They're now required to pull 12-hour shifts in an effort to get more police officers on the streets. The schedule can be grueling. The long hours are not earning the officers any more money, their pay was also cut.
Despite the warning, fans we talked to said they feel safe in the city.

 

[okietool]

I thought Detroit has been enter at your own risk for 20+ years.

 

[WTJ]

Get off my lawn.

 

[dennishoddy]

Been up there a couple of times for training and didn't have a whole lot of problems, but then again wasn't around the inner city.
Pretty much in the suburbs.

 

[71buickfreak]

The dirty isn't as bad as everyone says it is, not anymore. I was downtown a couple years ago at the Motorama car show in January. I went for a walk from the GM headquarters, which is right on the river downtown to a casino and club area. I walked for several hours, snow falling, talking to locals, was greeted with a kindly "hello" by folks that most people would be nervous to be on the same side of the street with. I love Detroit. I once drove a brand new Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca down 8 mile. Right into the dirtiest part of the ghetto. I didn't get carjacked. It did get a tad sketchy, and I wouldn't go there at night, but if you stay out of the really crappy parts, you'll be OK.

 

[cichlid-dave]

And folks that live in Detroit and it's surrounding cities pay some of the highest rates in the nation for insurance.

 

[AKguy1985]

I wouldnt go there.

 

[thegomezclan]

They need Robocop

 

[cjjtulsa]

The dirty isn't as bad as everyone says it is, not anymore. I was downtown a couple years ago at the Motorama car show in January. I went for a walk from the GM headquarters, which is right on the river downtown to a casino and club area. I walked for several hours, snow falling, talking to locals, was greeted with a kindly "hello" by folks that most people would be nervous to be on the same side of the street with. I love Detroit. I once drove a brand new Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca down 8 mile. Right into the dirtiest part of the ghetto. I didn't get carjacked. It did get a tad sketchy, and I wouldn't go there at night, but if you stay out of the really crappy parts, you'll be OK.

You’ve had better experiences than one of my coworkers. Born and raised in the Detroit area, he goes back to visit family about once a year, and says his old stomping grounds are a war zone. Most of the houses and buildings where he grew up have been razed, and he told of the method you use (recommended to him by others) to go visit his old neighborhood: wait until about 8:00 in the morning, then go look around. Be out of there around 11:00 or so, as the hood rats start to wake up after their late-night thugging, and you want to be out of there before they catch you messing around where you shouldn’t be. I asked him what it was like, and he said “picture Mogadishu without the RPGs”.

 

[AKguy1985]

I would like to go see the pawn shop on hardcore pawn though.