Sign of the Crimes: Detroit Cops Ban Cars From Parking in High-Crime Areas
- Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:03pm by
Liz Klimas
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In an effort to cut down on car break-ins, Detroit police are beginning to fine car owners who decide to park in areas that have been designated as susceptible to larceny.
The Associated Press (via the Detroit Free Press) reports that street parking in certain areas will be prohibited and violations enforced. But Jeff Wattrick, a writer for Mlive.com, doesn’t quite see how this is fair.
He writes:
You don’t punish victims or potential victims for crime. Penalizing patrons of downtown businesses because someone else might break into their cars is both morally repugnant and counter-productive to the goal of a vibrant, revitalized downtown.
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This policy is nothing short of an embarrassing admission of futility by an absolutely hapless police department. Rather than seeking a constructive solution to a problem afflicting an increasingly vibrant business district, Detroit officials elected to punish law-abiding citizens and entrepreneurs making a go of it in Detroit.
Wattrick notes that some people have already been reporting cases of “mass towings” and even though the cost will be refunded calls it “obnoxious.”
Police, according to AP, are encouraging car owners to park in well-lit areas and that a local parking lot is reducing its rates for those interested in safer parking.
According to Autoblog, it is not known how long enforcement of street parking restrictions in certain areas will remain in effect. The blog notes that with the 2012 Detroit Auto Show underway bringing in more cars to the area, police could be enacting these restrictions to curb thefts during this time. The writer of the blog post states that two of his friends had their cars broken into in Detroit last week before the restriction went into effect in the area police will be targeting.
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Comments (129)
chips1
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:41pmIt’s just going to be harded to find the stolen ones. Usually they park them close to home.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:38pmIn my town, several pizza restaurants will not deliver to certain neighborhoods after dark, due to high crime rates. Those neighborhoods are predominately minority (Black, Asian, and Mexican).
Report Post »BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:24pmSounds like Detroit progressives are really doing a nice job of running the city. Target the good people and punish them while crime runs rampant. No doubt they need a house cleaning. The kind of house cleaning that can be observed in the movie Tombstone!!!!
The Bible is the key to wisdom. You can tell the people who run the city of Detroit are nowhere near one.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:44pmIn my city there was a huge outcry because some pizza companies took the same stance after repeated robberies. It was a racial thing. Nevermind the drivers being held up at gun point for the meager bit of cash they had. Nope, it was because of someones skin color. Please ignore all the police reports and news coverage of such crimes.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:46pmI would not stop let alone park in that city
Report Post »and I carry not one but two guns…
NeoFan
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:00pmSo be forewarned If you are a law abiding citizen then you are responsible for any and all crimes committed against you. You have not right to protect yourself or your property and anyone attempting to protect them will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law of a corrupt government. Remember to vote Democrat in your next election.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:25pmIn America the land of dreams 30% of all under the age of 23 HAVE BEEN ARRESTED !!!
Are the NeoCon Religious Soccer Mom’s happy about that ????
Too bad we can’t make being stupid a crime.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:26pm30 percent !!!!!
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:26pm30 % over 23 in America !
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:27pmI mean under 23 yrs old
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:28pmand here is the link
Report Post »http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/19/143947345/more-than-30-percent-of-americans-arrested-by-age-23-study-says
Devil Dog 7175
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:36pmAwww, comon guys… the cops are just trying to remove the temptation. (sarc.)
Report Post »singleparent
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:55pmSo you think America is not a socialist country? Yep sure is… Let’s just sit back and watch..Oh that’s right we can just vote them out.. LMFAO i say B.S. This country will never be free again unless we take it back by force……………..
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:14pm@LeadNotFollow
I don‘t see how that’s relevant to the topic. That’s the market responding to market forces. This is government penalizing lawful citizens for being targeted by law breakers…God, it took a minte to make myself type that out.
@BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
You got it, brother. See a problem somewhere? Solve it by making it worse!
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:28pmBut if you are Dyncorp then you can traffic in sex slaves with no consequences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_4KtmqeKMA
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges07
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 8:00pm“Detroit Cops Ban Cars From Parking in High-Crime Areas”
“Detroit police are beginning to fine car owners who decide to park in areas that have been designated as susceptible to larceny.”
Can you say … “Police State”? Say it with me … “We are all criminals now”.
Report Post »jds7171
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:16pmYour typical liberal problem solving. Don’t punish the criminal, punish the victim. If it wasn’t for the victim, the criminal wouldn’t have done what he did.
Report Post »StraightEdge3
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:30pmThis is a perfect example of the government controlling the people they can (law abiding citizens) but failing to control the ones they cannot (criminals). And why you ask…. because it is easier to control them, they will follow the rules. Same thing with gun control.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:56pm.
Report Post »“Detroit Cops Ban Cars From Parking in High-Crime Areas”
Well, DUH, it’s Detroit, every place is a high crime area.
toto
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:40amWhat is happening to our country and why are we allowing it to happen?????
Report Post »expatinontariocanada
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:35pmI was born there, Eastside General, East Grand Blvd, in 1957. My dad and I were downtown several years ago and he told me when he worked there, at the Penobscot Building in the early ‘60’s, during lunch hour there were so many pedestrians out and about walking to lunch or wherever that the sidewalks couldn’t handle them all. People took up a lane of traffic sometimes, it was that busy with hustle and bustle. It brought a tear to his eye. It brings one to mine now as well.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:47pmThe sixties was a time of choice made by the Democrats. They could have stayed the Democrat Party of JFK not conservative but at least not Anti-American. Or Become the Liberal, Progressive, Socialist, Communist, Anarchist, Reparationist, Racist, DEMOCRAT Party of today. Neuva Haven, CT is much the same as Detroit.
Report Post »expatinontariocanada
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 10:31amWhoops. Eastside General Hospital was 18 blocks ENE of East Grand Blvd. On Cadillac Blvd. Hey, it was 54 years ago ;-)
Report Post »Ratcraft
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:32pmWhat did you expect, it’s a mess no different than Africa.
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:59pmAfrica is in better shape than Detroit. Detroit is the poster child of what happens with repeatedly putting dumocraps into office! Color has nothing to do with it, it‘s liberal ’leadership’!
Report Post »barnsy
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:20pmThe real life “ Rise Of The Planet OF The Apes”. Thats not a black reference ! Its a reference to the animal like behavior of many Detroit dirtbags of all races.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:31pmWhy dont we be a little racist? You guys are idiots.
Report Post »barnsy
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:36pm@Baddoggy, Read the comment! nothing racist in what I wrote.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:48pmlildoggy can only regurjitate what he’s learned over the years in public schools, if you can’t debate the facts, resort to a lazy argument using the race card.
Report Post »Barry Da Fraud
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:51amThe only black TV program I like to watch is BAIT CAR.
Report Post »toto
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:46amI am sick to death of not being able to speak the truth about the racial behavior of blacks in Detroit. They have destroyed their city and do act worse than animals. If they had any pride or honor, they would clean this up themselves, but this is who they are.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:29pmSo what happens when the criminals follow the cars to where they are allowed to park…..will they start ticketing those areas as well. Seems to me that this may be a new tax they are trying to pass by fooling the people. It is just “defined” as fines for parking in these areas but what happens when these criminals start going to other areas….because anyone with half a brain knows that criminals breaking in thse cars will just follow wherever the cars go…..
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:15pmYou should be running the Detroit PD. It doesn’t appear that those in charge in Detroit have two brain cells rubbing together.
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:34pmYou are right sir… but the ones in charge of Detroit are not the cops…They haven’t been for YEARS. So “don’t have two brain cells to rub together” fits the ones who are in charge. Sad, at one time in the long ago, it was a fairly decent place to live.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 7:29pmWill the last person out of Detroit turn off the lights?
Report Post »JimmyP
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:29pmExactly what happened to the “experts” the Obama administration sent to Detroit last year to help the city? Remember a remark was made that they were not interns, but seasoned professional? They were going to actualkly live in the city. NOT A WORD HAS BEEN SPOKEN ABOUIT WHAT THEY ACCOMPLISHED!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:28pmIf Cleveland is the Armpit of the Nation, Detroit is surely the Rectum…. What a great place to be FROM……
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:16amMaybe we are putting the border fence in the wrong place. If we fenced Detroit in rather than Mexico out we could reduce the crime rate. Fining drivers for tempting the criminals is so ridiculous its funny.
This is what Rev Jesse and Valerie want for the other major cities in America.
OMG
Report Post »SmarterThanTheAverageBear
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:27pmWhat a joke… I bet the criminals are laughing about this. These cities wouldn’t have this problem if they made the punishment worse than the crime. Detroit should return to the code of the west:
“Never steal another man’s horse. A horse thief pays with his life.”
Report Post »Guttersmack
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:26pmEncourage Conceled Carry by all who are eligible, then enact a Castle doctrine where you can not be prosecuted for self defense. That will help this crime riddled city. The central planners just can’t allow that type of individual control over consequences….it conflicts with the liberal/progressive idea that government knows best.
Detroit is just a great example of the absence of the values of Classical Liberalism…ie personal liberty. Progressives have no concept of what Liberalism was intended to be…they have bastardized re word. Sad.
Report Post »toto
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:49amAgree completely.
Report Post »BornandraisedintheD
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:41pmIgnorance is alive! Whether or not you people realize it or not those of you bashing the city of detroit are just as ignorant as the ones destroying it. Believe it or not alot of people residing in the city of Detroit do care about their city, strive to clean it and survive in it. All over the world there is crime and I am so sick and tired of people bashing my city, and for the person stating most of us dont have vehicles is just pure stupidity! Im sorry but you cant possibly no our city to make the comment because that is far from the truth and not only are we the motor city alot of us have in fact had some hard times due to the rough economy affecting alot of us all over the worldu womb, but baby you better beleive we stick together through hardships, pains and we overcome many obstacles and will fight a battle at any given time if you cross us. But ask your ancestors where we get the fight in us from. Please stop talking about our city, if your not trying to uplift and build shut the hell up immediately because it all boils down to your comments are only as foolish as the ones degrading our city. And it all races live within the Detroit city limits and by the way I see whites all the time trying to buy drugs and looking like walking death within the city and then travel back across 8 mile. So quit degrading african americans!
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:24pmI went to a Red Wings game once and parked in a lot (It was actually the site of a razed building, surrounded by abandoned buildings, pretty freaky) and had to walk several blocks to the Joe.
After the game, we headed in a different direction to avoid the groups of people begging for change and got lost. Scariest time in my life.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:30pmOh yeah, and the point to my story. If you go to Detroit, don’t park. Take the bus. And even then, you have to be careful.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:34pm@kickenback
Report Post »You, my friend, are lucky to be alive….. and im serious !
CatB
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:42pmYes .. I would not drive and park anywhere in Detroit .. take a game bus from A2 or another close by city .. they drop you off at the venue and pick you back up at the venue .. don’t walk ANYWHERE in Detroit …. period.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:57amWent to see ‘Cats’ at the FOX-afternoon matinee…took a wrong turn on the way out. OMG! Two blocks from the Theater and it is another world. I stopped at one stop sign, car got surrounded by men trying to sell drugs. Didn’t stop at any more stop signs till I could see the freeway. {Haven’t been back since}
Report Post »BornandraisedintheD
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:27pmAll over the world you will see those that are less fortunate and begging for money in there dire time of need and yet there are some people who will abuse it, but if you are so afraid to walk the streets of Detroit due to someone less fortunate than you Don’t go to Detroit. You people kill me you go to the city and party and get drunk in our bars and then go back to the suburbs and talk about it. Stay away since you feel so afraid!
Report Post »DennisWG
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:23pmDetroit was a wonderful city to grow up in back in the long ago good old days before liberals took it over. And, now they are so desperate for money they are stooping so low as to fine people for obeying the law. Thanks for the warning next time I return I hope I can get a good coney island in the suburbs.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:20pmsounds about right Detroit is a haven for cockroaches. Got to love those democRATS.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:15pmYes if ICE did their job they could thin it out a little where are all the illegals hiding right in plain site.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:18pmAnd it’s not just Mexicans this includes all nationalities.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:20pmDetroit the progressive jewel of Michigan. What a success story. More than 40 years of Democrat rule and it is the biggest sewer in the country. They must be proud. I don’t think the new rule will hurt much because not many there can afford a car. Still it is sad that the law abiding people have to lose another freedom because of the failure of the progressive ideology. I read an article not long ago saying you could buy a home there in some districts for $5000.00. I hope my city will do as well as Detroit…:o)
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:51pmI think that $6000 is the median home price there. Some foreclosures go for as little as $50. It’s probably the one place in the country that I could pay cash for a house… but I wouldn’t want to live there.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:20pmThis a lazy solution to a huge problem. You do not penalize citizens for your inability to detour crime. You are pretty much giving the criminals a green light to do as they will because everyone will just tuck and run.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:19pmEvidently they allow parking near Chucky Cheese in Detroit. Where grandma got beat up.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:43pmThose are in the burbs .. that was Dearborn …
Report Post »skipmontesjr
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:19pmWow…Again another story about that Sh_t hole Detroit….Yes it is the owners of the cars fault their car gets broken into….Don’t blame the criminals or the police for not getting a handle on the crime…Lets blame the victims….So you are no longer to be free to move about freely…The criminals have won…Crazy….
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:19pmThey talked about bulldozing half the city a few years ago and I think that’s wrong,the entire city should be bulldozed.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:17pmwell at least detroit has the lions, for now. Detroit a riot waiting to happen. another democrat run city.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:23pmJust imagine if they win the Superbowl….just think what would happen to what is left of the city!
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:15pmLet’s not bust the criminal for stealing a car, let’s harass the non-criminal because they entice the criminal to act on a target of opportunity.
Idiocracy at its best. Compliments of the public (government run) educational system.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:21pmThe law abiding citizen won’t shoot back.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:54pm@ lodgerat
The law abiding citizen won’t shoot back.
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That’s because the system is specifically designed to create criminals who abide by the law. I learned when I was in my early teens that “only fences keep honest people out”.
The minute you try to defend yourself or your property as a law abiding person – in any decisive way – whether justified or not, you become a criminal in the eyes of the judicial system.
Of course, my cynical thinking is biased because I live in California.
Report Post »SpaceRaider
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:10pmWon’t shoot back? True in some cases, some people like it up close and personal… self defense with a knife. Or… the raider way with a crowbar.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:15pmSo let me get this straight. If I park my car legally in an area the Detroit Milicops deem as being “unsafe” because my car “might” be jacked, they are going to fine me for doing so?
Report Post »How about doing your jobs , are the doughnuts so additive that you can’t actually catch the car thieves, let alone drag your HGH shooting fake muscled behinds from the stools? I guess the union doesn’t demand you actually do your job, plus the cities so broke you and your socialist city council decided to fine innocent people to raise revenues?
No small wonder Detroit has long been considered uninhabited by people worthy of visiting and is in a state of progressive urban malignancy.
momrules
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:14pmCriminals use guns so criminalize the legal gun owners.
Criminals steal cars so criminalize legal car owners.
This is what makes sense in 2012 America. My head hurts.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:13pmSo its too cold for officers to be walking a beat in the area trying to catch these thugs…why don’t you just state why? Detroit is the armpit of a French woman…..disgusting and unsightly. Whats worse? This is what happens when democrats take over a city.
Report Post »randy
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:13pmKind of reminds me of our southern border where signs are posted telling Americans to stay out because it is overrun with illegal alien drug smugglers.
Report Post »How about the Detroit cops and the US government start doing their jobs.
Pathetic!
BetterDays
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:21pmFunny, but if we stopped paying them for not doing their jobs, they’d arrest us, now my head hurts!
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:10pmReally…………….this is their solution???????
Once again, how long has this city been run by Liberals?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:16pmLibs/progressives for forty fifty years that‘s why it’s in such great shape.Coleman Young ran that city into the ground,as corrupt as they come.Kwame Kilpatrick was in prison recently,I think he’s out now,another corrupt former Mayor of Detroit.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:29pmMore than 40 years
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:08pmThat‘s all of Detroit pretty much isn’t it.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:16pmFrom end to end, it is a most fecal of progressive cities.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:40pmYou dont expect them to actually mess with the criminals do you ? Police Departments all across the country , are nothing more than revenue generators for themselves and the cities they work for, they would much rather ticket some workin stiff than prevent crime…. And when seconds count, the police are minutes away………
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:32pmI agree that revenue could be at the heart of this. But, I would not be surprised to learn that insurance companies are making “contributions” to the city to get this enforced.
I escaped from the Peoples Reuplic of Memphis where my car was stolen three times in two years. My insurance company said they would drop my coverage if I did not get a car that was less likely to be stolen. I did as I was told/asked. Oh,… I traded my car at a dealership and I happened to know the person who bought it – he drove it to New Orleans and got it stolen there. It was a Riviera.
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