THE DEMORALIZED POLICE FORCE OF BANKRUPT AND CRIME RIDDEN DETROIT

It has come to this: Even some criminals sympathize with Detroit's cops.

 

Baron Coleman thought he'd heard it all in his 17 years patrolling the streets. But then came the city's bankruptcy, a 10 per cent cut in police salaries, followed by support from a most unlikely corner - the bad guys.

 

‘When they saw us take a pay cut they were in shock. We were arresting guys ... and they were like, “I can't believe your city would do you like this.” ... I say, “Thanks for caring,”’ the veteran officer says with a smile. ‘It's just funny because I don't like communicating with a person who has just committed a robbery how sad my life is.

Paychecks have shrunk. Morale is low. Co-workers have fled to more lucrative jobs. And those who remain face a formidable task: trying to protect a sprawling, often violent city where hidden dangers lurk among tens of thousands of abandoned houses.

 

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2565686/Guardians-broken-city-Detroits-police-struggle-make-ends-meet-pay-cuts-dwindling-numbers-rundown-equipment-town-criminals-pity-cops.html

 

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WHAT DOOMED DETROIT? 

And links to post-apocalyptic photographs of the city 

http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/11/post-apocalyptic-pictures-of-detroit.html

 

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