Mayor Pushing Police To Live In Detroit

February 7, 2011 3:29 PM

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DETROIT (WWJ) - These brave women and men already work in the city of Detroit — and now, Mayor Dave Bing wants police officers to live in the city as well.

Bing has been vocal about his desire to get police officers to move back into the city, and now he’s taking action by announcing a new incentive plan to get them to live where they work.

Currently, 53 percent of Detroit Police officers commute to work from the suburbs, and Bing says the number is even higher for firefighters.

As part of a pilot program called “Project 14″ Detroit cops and firefighters who live in the suburbs will be offered renovated homes in the city for as little as $1,000.

Mayor Bing said this is one step in a plan to revitalize Detroit.

“Project 14 is one approach that my administration is deploying to take two challenges facing Detroit — public safety and vacant homes — and turn them into an opportunity for neighborhood revitalization,” Mayor Bing said.

“There are steps that we can and must take today to improve the quality of life for our citizens. That’s why I am announcing Project 14 — an initiative designed to encourage Detroit Police officers to live in the communities in which they serve,” Bing said.

The project is targeting homes in Detroit’s Boston-Edison and East English Village communities. Bing says funding for the project will come from neighborhood stabilization funding, HUD and partnerships with local banks and credit unions. No tax dollars will be spent.

In 1999, the state legislature revoked a controversial rule that required Detroit police officers to live in the city.

FRANK BOSINGER

THEY WANT THEM TO LIVE IN THE CITY UNTIL THEY CAN COLLECT THE 15-20-25-30 YEAR PENSION PLANS & ENABLE THEIR SPOUSES & FAMILY MEMBERS TO COLLECT ON UP TO 30 YEARS AFTER THEIR DEATHS ALONG WITH THE HEALTH & WELFARE DENTAL & 401 K PLANS.
THIS WILL SURELY FIX THE PROBLEM. THESE IDIOTS THINK ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE TAXED OR SHOT TO DEATH WILL RETURN FOR ANOTHER 50 YEARS OF GOVT RUN ENDENTURED SERVATUDE.

JOE SEPPE

FRANK, DID YOU NOT VOTE FOR BARRACK HUSSEIN ?
HE WANTS US TO WORK HARDER SO HE CAN RE-DISTRIBUTE OUR INCOMES
BETTER THAN WE CAN.
P.S. YOUR CAPS LOCK IN ON.

rollzone

hello. Detroit needs automobile jobs. kick the oil barons out, build electric and hydrogen fuel cell, and renew the industry without as much unchallenged socialism. get investment from South Korea, Japan, and Germany, and rebuild the industry. kick Government Motors out of town. do it better, and all the social problems get funded by commerce. just watch the accountability. there would be a boon to gobble that real estate bonanza with employment opportunity, and your infrastructure for the automotive industry is huge. build the right cars.
Jon

I’ve never heard of a city that didn’t require their emergency personnel to reside there. And the article calls that “contraversial”?

Bubu

No, it calls it controversial.

KEW

There must be a Republican somewhere in the mix who has greatly contributed to the demise of Detroit. It can be all the fault of the Democrats. Or could it be?
What is the saying? Fat, dumb and happy? Detroit is just another American city that is going down the toilet thanks to the welfare states they have become,
Iraq Vet

I suspect they live in the suburbs for a very good reason, and if they have kids why for the love of a free house would they subject their kids to the gang infested, third world education system and landfill that Detroit has become….Thanks Democrats, and thanks to the folks that keep voting for their own ruination.
dbomb12

why not give the offer to Eminem and Ted nugent that should fix everything
dwayne

We just need Reps, not to be scared to say what you are saying.
Just think, if the Dems could blame something as big as an entire city being broke, due to Reps. policies. What would the Dems do?
TopTurtle

Well lets get it on. The Democrats are just as idiotic as the Republicans say they are. But! The Republicans cannot see through their cult of leadership on GW Bush to the fact that he left them destroyed. Who is crazier? I suspect both would win the competition. Fact is Detroit did everything wrong like the Democrats intended. Fact is The USA set up its own citizens to pay high taxes and let businessmen go over seas to compete without taxes against them. The country is dying of the Free Trade adgenda. It is a trade war against Americans by their own government. It’s working people!
Call me Ishmael

I think the solution to Detroits crime problem is hard labor for boys and men that break the law. They fear no criminal penalties now. They only fear slavery, which is what chain gang work is. It would soothe the heart of every crime victim and strike terror in the heart of every gangsta. Work them to death, see if anybody cares. Our ancestors were tougher people than we are and they had tough solutions.

willypguts

Look up “gulag.”

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Michael Dean Miller

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Is it so difficult to believe that no one wants to live in a city run by black socialists, even if you get to carry a gun?

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http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/ Karmi

Hard to believe that anyone wants to work in a city of hate like that…to live there!?!
Lizzy

You know if we had just shot everybody involved in the bar that started the riots, none of this wouldve happened.

anyway, its an ideal move and as we know Ideal hardly reflects reality. you move detroit cops into the areas they serve and the people they need to protect from will try to kill them. Like angry students egging a strict teachers house. except the students are asshats in too baggy pants the teachers are cops the eggs are bullets and the houses are the families.
cb

If you bulldoze the entire city there would be no need for cops and firefighters at all. Consider it “urban renewal.”
sorrow

it is so sad to see the blacks hating on blacks
udontwannano

Detroit. Love it or leave it . . . otherwise STFU!
Rick

Encouraging new business to create employment sounds like a plan until you realize the employers would have to hire people that are union organizers and worse yet, who are products of the Detroit education system. Yeah, I’d put a business where my employees would be thugs with attitudes who could not read! Wouldn’t you?
Jeff

And Democrats say these sort of shenanigans aren’t Socialist. Could have fooled me.
mycooperman

I wouldn’t live in the cesspool called Detroit if you gave me a $1,000,000 mansion…It just needs to be blown up and forgotten…..
Roger

And your property taxes will be…. $10,000 per year. Suckas.
Dave Tincher

I live in Cincinnati, and we are starting to slide into a cess pool like Detroit. The city of Cincinnati is building a casino to bring jobs. I think detroit thought this would work also. Stupid demmocrats robbing peter to pay paul and the local government cutting the pot on the poor.
a

love shacks going for only 1,000 per girlfriend x 3 girlfriends = 3,000. i’m in.
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James

I hope each of you commenting on this article has seen or will see the email circulating comparing pictures of Hiroshima with pictures of Detroit 65 years after Hiroshima was bombed to help expedite the end of World War II. One is a vibrant and thriving city that rebuilt after being destroyed by an atomic bomb during the war; the other was once a vibrant and thriving city that was destroyed by Democrat (New Society) programs and policies and now looks like a war zone. I think you may see that some policies are more destructive than war, just take a little longer to implement their destruction.