Detroit murder rate

[Homicidalheathen]

http://detnews.com/article/20090618/METRO/906180406/Detroit-police-routinely-underreport-homicides Edited December 3, 2009 by Homicidalheathen

[Fidget(+)]

"What's happening here is they're excluding justifiable homicides when they shouldn't be. Period." said Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.

Is it sad i'm not surprised?

[n0Mad]

According to the FBI classifications:

The category does not include deaths by suicide, accident or justifiable homicides. But a justifiable homicide, according to the bureau, is limited to the killing of a felon by a peace officer in the line of duty and the killing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a citizen.

Edited December 4, 2009 by Spook

[dragonluv]

This is sad.

To me, its seems like so many people are point fingers on who to blame. Yet, the main problems of Detroit, are still not being resolved.

[taysteewonderbunny]

Um, yeah. Police have been overlooking suspicious deaths in Detroit for years. Case in point: in 2003, I was residing in an apartment building a few blocks off of Wayne State University campus where my then boyfriend worked as building manager. One or two residents reported an odd smell in one of the apartments. Then residents reported that they were approached inside the building by a man who asked them if they wanted to see a dead body and offered to show them a corpse for money. So my ex resignedly went to the top floor to find the source of the odor. No man was found, but the door to apartment 414 (none of the apartments were numbered with 13--I guess the builders were superstitious that way) in which I had previously resided (but vacated because of the inescapable roach situation) was ajar and there was the mouldering corpse of the registered female tenant in the bathtub. Without conducting any interviews at all or even looking for the guy residents had spotted, police decided, even before autopsy, that it was an accidental death. Case closed. Nevermind that the woman's belongings were missing and that she was found under such strange circumstances and that the corpse had been "mutilated" according to one witness. Of course, the assumption was that the kitten, starved for food for the three days prior to the woman's discovery, had done that. Hence Grendel, the man-eating monster kitten, got her name. What a darling kitty she was.

[Homicidalheathen]

Holy fucking hell!

Selling tickets??? wtf thats a new one.

[KatRN05]

I think there is so much crime in Detroit, the cops can't even keep up with it. Murders, missing persons etc. A girl I went to high school with went missing after leaving a friend's house downtown three years ago. She called her sister for a ride and when her sister arrived, she was gone and no one has seen or heard from her since. There are some sick fucks in Detroit.