Body Found On Detroit Runway

Checkout_my_Six said:
look up the stats....they don't lie.
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https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/top-lists/highest-murder-rate-cities/

The countdown for the Top 30 Murder Capitals of America:

Rank City

30 Washington, DC

29 Milwaukee, WI

28 East Chicago, IN

27 Desert Hot Springs, CA

26 Goldsboro, NC

25 Salinas, CA

24 Myrtle Beach, SC

23 Hartford, CT

22 Banning, CA

21 Bessemer, AL

20 Baton Rouge, LA

19 Youngstown, OH

18 Riviera Beach, FL

17 Jackson, MS

16 Cleveland, OH

15 Portsmouth, VA

14 Monroe, LA

13 Newark, NJ

12 Birmingham, AL

11 Wilmington, DE

10 Camden, NJ

9 New Orleans, LA

8 Detroit, MI

7 Flint, MI

6 Petersburg, VA

5 Baltimore, MD

4 St. Louis, MO

3 Gary, IN

2 Chester, PA

1 East St. Louis, IL
 
Checkout_my_Six said:
look up the stats....they don't lie.
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Except how they are vastly overblown, they don't accurately represent media bs,or the and the fact that just as many violent crimes happen in tons of other cities in America. It's been commonly excepted that detriot is the most violent city in America so the media can get tons of buzz by reporting the violence that happens here, that violence happens at the same scale in tons of other city's across America but won't generate the same level of attention as Detroit does. And If you don't think race plays into it, then you don't understand what it's like to live in the city, there are areas my dad can walk down the street that my mom and I can't, that's the truth of it, whether you like it or not. I'm done debating it, I'm not sugar coating it, I'm just saying that now there is far less violent crime than there has been pretty much my whole life. go to saint louis, or birmingham, or Memphis if you wanna see the worst city in America. Detroit is getting better, but people just wanna hear the bad news.
 
Norman said:
I think that can be said of a lot of major cities. They all have areas in which you don't want to go unless you're looking for trouble. Flint and Saginaw are not major cities by any stretch of the imagination but there are places the cops will tell you to avoid if you like your hide intact.
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This is fact, i find flint a lot more frightening than Detroit, but I don't know my way around flint either...
 
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/top-lists/highest-murder-rate-cities/

The countdown for the Top 30 Murder Capitals of America:

Rank City

30 Washington, DC

29 Milwaukee, WI

28 East Chicago, IN

27 Desert Hot Springs, CA

26 Goldsboro, NC

25 Salinas, CA

24 Myrtle Beach, SC

23 Hartford, CT

22 Banning, CA

21 Bessemer, AL

20 Baton Rouge, LA

19 Youngstown, OH

18 Riviera Beach, FL

17 Jackson, MS

16 Cleveland, OH

15 Portsmouth, VA

14 Monroe, LA

13 Newark, NJ

12 Birmingham, AL

11 Wilmington, DE

10 Camden, NJ

9 New Orleans, LA

8 Detroit, MI

7 Flint, MI

6 Petersburg, VA

5 Baltimore, MD

4 St. Louis, MO

3 Gary, IN

2 Chester, PA

1 East St. Louis, IL
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Thank you for posting this. I'm out Y'all, this is too close to home and it's getting me kinda salty.
 
A local says there's a cemetery along that fence line of the airport. Thinks someone wandered into the airport from there where there's openings in the fence.

I've heard about the controversy over "through the fence" agreements, but letting the zombies have one might be a bit much. ;-)
 
Jim Case said:
Except how they are vastly overblown...
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Sometimes yes, but sometimes the opposite is true:
I was just talking to a Detroit drug detective yesterday that mentioned that drug dealers are now committing murders in Detroit by over-injecting their victims full of heroin. Detroit PD is reporting these murders as overdoses to keep their murder stats lower.
 
Yeah Birmingham AL (#21) and Bessemer (#21) which adjoins B'ham, a bad place, if you're in the wrong part of town. There's areas that are safe, and parts of BHM are experiencing investment and improvements. I live about 25 miles south. Most of the shootings are black on black, as in all major cities. Not being racial, that's factual.

We had a crew layover in DET 4-5 years ago in downtown. They went somewhere 4-5 blocks from the hotel to some bar. They were talking to a couple black guys in the bar, and when they were getting ready to walk back (dark out now) the guy said man, I'd better escort you cats back. I think they were aware that the 2 black guys were DET cops.

After walking a block or two, all of a sudden they were surrounded by a street gang. When they recognized the cop, they were cool, and they kept walking. Another block or two the same thing, surrounded, and this different gang recognized the cop also. A block or so from the hotel the cop thought they'd make it the rest of the way unescorted OK. Pilots thanked him and walked the rest of the way. They looked back and the cop was still there watching them. One of the pilots says to the other, man I think he was waiting for some folding money. Who knows.

They were crazy going into areas they were unfamiliar with in the daytime, let alone nighttime.
 
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Jim Case said:
Right In a way, but compared to saint Louis, Birmingham, Memphis, Detroit isn't that bad, I live here.
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Wait a minute, I bought my RV-8 from a guy in Birmingham, MI and my wife and I thought it was a real nice town! :)
 
Jim Case said:
it gets a worse reputation then it deserves.
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Lots of places do.

I landed at KDET somewhere around midnight to pick up a couple and take them to California. I went to the street side doors to see if they had arrived, and they were locked. The FBO guy said he would keep a watch and let them in. I never figured out why they were using KDET as they had enough money to charter an airplane from Detroit to California. Maybe it was convenient to them.
 
colojo said:
Wait a minute, I bought my RV-8 from a guy in Birmingham, MI and my wife and I thought it was a real nice town! :)
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I think he's referring to B'ham Alabama, and it's on that list, scroll back.
 
Holy COW Chester, PA is #2??? Wow I just drove through there from Philly to West Chester...Chester was like a damn third world country...but had no idea it was that bad.
 
Yup, if you ever watch the tv show The First 48, the majority of the episodes were filmed in Birmingham. They basically could get a ton of episodes filmed in a short amount of time. With that being said, I have managed to not go to those parts of town and actually live in a beautiful part of Birmingham where it is very nice. As a former LEO in Fulton County, GA, I can tell you there is no shortage of violent crime there, just a shortage of reporting it.
 
mulligan said:
Yup, if you ever watch the tv show The First 48, the majority of the episodes were filmed in Birmingham. They basically could get a ton of episodes filmed in a short amount of time. With that being said, I have managed to not go to those parts of town and actually live in a beautiful part of Birmingham where it is very nice. As a former LEO in Fulton County, GA, I can tell you there is no shortage of violent crime there, just a shortage of reporting it.
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The 'first 48' will film wherever they can get an agreement with the city, any of the major cities would have enough volume to make it worth their while. Their main reason to move from place to place are local politicians who don't want to see their town associated with the genre.
 
CC268 said:
This is what happens when you white and live in Detroit homie. Let's be real here everyone on this site is part of the 1%...I thought everyone on here lived in Mission Viejo, Laguna Niguel, etc

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That was quite the video. Thank you for posting.

I have lived in Compton , ca. Long beach, ca. New Orleans, la. Winston Salem,nc. Nashville, Tennessee. And a few others like Virginia beach, Charlestown Etc.
there were places you did not stop and places where the police would pull you over yo tell you to turn around. It is quite the world we live in! Glad I live in a small town in Montana
 
Velocity173 said:
Atlanta isn't in the top 30??? Now I know that list was hacked by Russians.
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Atlanta is outright peaceful. In 2015, 94 homicides with a population of 460k. Compare that with Baltimore, 344 homicides with a population of 600k. As in most cities, this concentrates on a few census tracts.
 
mulligan said:
Yup, if you ever watch the tv show The First 48, the majority of the episodes were filmed in Birmingham. They basically could get a ton of episodes filmed in a short amount of time. With that being said, I have managed to not go to those parts of town and actually live in a beautiful part of Birmingham where it is very nice. As a former LEO in Fulton County, GA, I can tell you there is no shortage of violent crime there, just a shortage of reporting it.
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My grandparents lived in Alabama for a long time...I can't quite remember where but it was a beautiful place actually...I always remember it being cloudy and rainy when I was there (which I like being from Arizona lol)
 
Acrodustertoo said:
That was quite the video. Thank you for posting.

I have lived in Compton , ca. Long beach, ca. New Orleans, la. Winston Salem,nc. Nashville, Tennessee. And a few others like Virginia beach, Charlestown Etc.
there were places you did not stop and places where the police would pull you over yo tell you to turn around. It is quite the world we live in! Glad I live in a small town in Montana
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Yea it is a cool video...saw it many years ago but pretty amazing story
 
tawood said:
I love how nearly every thread these days has an AOA indicator reference!
Lord help anybody who wants to legitimately search the term "AOA".
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Alcoholic Outings for Aviators? (DFW comes readily to mind for some obscure reason)
 
mulligan said:
As a former LEO in Fulton County, GA, I can tell you there is no shortage of violent crime there, just a shortage of reporting it.
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That northern portion has been needing to clip that southern turd for years.
 
Cpt_Kirk said:
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That northern portion has been needing to clip that southern turd for years.
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Some of those North Fulton cities have at least managed to secede and become their own city vs being under control of Fulton County. I lived up north in Blue Ridge GA and I was surprised that it was 100% Caucasian.
 
mscard88 said:
Some of those North Fulton cities have at least managed to secede and become their own city vs being under control of Fulton County. I lived up north in Blue Ridge GA and I was surprised that it was 100% Caucasian.
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Yup but we still had mutual aid agreements and trust me when I tell you when it came to warrants and certain other operations many agencies are involved. The northern part was much better but it is in there. Lots of it.
 
mulligan said:
Yup but we still had mutual aid agreements and trust me when I tell you when it came to warrants and certain other operations many agencies are involved. The northern part was much better but it is in there. Lots of it.
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Yeah, when I was living in Blue Ridge we had to take our dog to that animal hospital in Sandy Springs when that dirt bag escaped from the ATL courthouse and went on a rampage killing a Judge, cop, and maybe others. We had just picked up the dog after 3-4 days there and all the intersections of 285 were were crawling w/ police as this cat wasn't captured yet and was still on the move. Put on WSB (think that's the talk radio there) and then we found out what was happening.

My crashpad was in Hapeville a few blocks north of Va Ave, just north of Hartsfield, and definitely not a great area either.

Kudos to you Mully for being a cop. Too ****ing dangerous in cities, really anywhere these days.
 
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Desert Hot Springs & Banning Calif. ??? Come on !!

Last year we had 3 people murdered in Salome, AZ with 850 or so residents. Shouldn't that give us a place on the chart?
 
mscard88 said:
Yeah, when I was living in Blue Ridge we had to take our dog to that animal hospital in Sandy Springs when that dirt bag escaped from the ATL courthouse and went on a rampage killing a Judge, cop, and maybe others. We had just picked up the dog after 3-4 days there and all the intersections of 285 were were crawling w/ police as this cat wasn't captured yet and was still on the move. Put on WSB (think that's the talk radio there) and then we found out what was happening.

My crashpad was in Hapeville a few blocks north of Va Ave, just north of Hartsfield, and definitely not a great area either.

Kudos to you Mully for being a cop. Too ****ing dangerous in cities, really anywhere these days.
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I was on that one. Was also on Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. Unfortunately many many many more. It was a different world back then. At lest for law enforcement. Would have to think very hard about ever doing that again.
 
mulligan said:
I was on that one. Was also on Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. Unfortunately many many many more. It was a different world back then. At lest for law enforcement. Would have to think very hard about ever doing that again.
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What ever happened to that guy I mentioned? Should have fried him IMO.
 
colojo said:
My sarcasm was clearly lost on you.
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No, it wasn't, I understood it. I just thought maybe you had confused the wrong city that's all. Excuse me for trying to be helpful. :rolleyes:
 
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