RT News With hundreds of thousands having fled Detroit in the last decade alone, the city is turning into a deserted dumping ground for murder victims. And with its budget choked, the Motor City has had to cut back on its police force to boot.
A report published Thursday by the Associated Press tells of two bodies decomposing in an empty Detroit lot littered with tires and furniture. The teenage boys had been stripped to their underwear, shot, and then left to rot on one of the city’s many abandoned, formerly residential blocks.
They were only the latest in a string of murder victims whose remains lay for days before being discovered. Detroit has become a kind of agglomeration of rural patches contained inside an urban area, where what were once neighborhoods have turned into overgrown fields.
Outsiders – and police – are unlikely to visit the inner wasteland of what some Americans now call the Murder City.
The situation is a result of nearly fifty years of decay, after white residents started making their way to the suburbs in the 1950s. And after a vicious race riot in 1967, their mass relocation picked up in earnest.
Over the next two decades, the city’s black middle class followed, and blocks – sometimes neighborhoods – of empty houses and overgrown lawns are all that remain today.
Tens of thousands of the city’s homes have been falling apart over the years – some collapsing, while others have been demolished.
And now, the deserted parts of town are quickly turning into dumping grounds for bodies – at a rate of about one corpse found every month for the last year. And those are only counting the victims authorities know of.
Seventy-four-year-old Ella Dunn lives about a hundred meters from where 17-year-old Jacob Kudla and 18-year-old Jourdan Bobbish’s bodies were found by a passerby on July 27; they had disappeared in Detroit five days earlier.
Dunn’s is the closest inhabited house from the scene of the crime, as she’s watched nearly all her neighbors leave over the last 24 years.
Today, the neighborhood is used mostly for dumping trash – and whatever else those passing through need to get rid of. A toilet, various furniture items, and several boats can be seen in a nearby parking lot.
“They drive down and push stuff out,” Dunn told AP.
Earlier in July, two decapitated bodies were pulled out of the Detroit River and a canal nearby. City officials say they were shot and dismembered in suburban Allen Park, then brought to a deserted park in Detroit and dropped in the water.
In December, the corpses of two women were found in a car left near an abandoned house. A week later, the charred remains of two other women were discovered in the trunk of another car. Police say all of them were murdered elsewhere, then brought to Detroit for disposal.
In search of solutions – and funding
Right now, there isn’t much the city can do about it. Detroit lacks the money to level its staggering 30,000-plus abandoned houses, and has had to cut the police force’s pay in recent years.
Mayor Dave Bing is pushing a proposal that would use federal dollars to demolish as many of the houses as possible, with the State of Michigan pitching in as well.
And with law enforcement scrambling to keep track of crime, Bing has some unexpected help.
“The city has an annual tradition of burning homes on October 30th in an event called Devil’s Night. The city is so desperate that it can’t keep up with all the arsons,” Nathan Manire, a New York-based artist from Detroit, told RT.
In another possibility, the local government could buy up properties in mostly-deserted neighborhoods, leveling whole blocks in hopes of renewal sometime down the road. But, Dunn says, “I couldn’t move if I wanted to. They don’t want to give you any money for your house.” Dunn’s is one of only three occupied houses in her entire neighborhood.
Bing will need the government’s help if his plan is to succeed. With about 250,000 people having left Detroit since 2000, a city built for 2 million now houses a little more than 700,000 people. One of the results of that is that tax revenue is down, and everyone in town is feeling the effects.
General Motors, one of the largest corporations headquartered in the city, made about $1 billion in revenue between January and March of this year – but due to its former bankrupt status, chances are it won’t have to pay taxes for years to come.
Crime is always one step ahead
And the city clearly needs a more serious police presence – which it also can’t afford. Officers recently took a 10 per cent reduction in pay.
When officer John Garner joined the Detroit Police Department in 1999, he was only responsible for a 3.6-square-mile area, and would see another officer roughly three times over the course of any given hour. Today, he covers 22 square miles, and bumps into a colleague “maybe once every two hours,” he said.
Garner added, “if we know this, the criminals know this.”
And as cops spend their time trying to keep track of all the major offenses, residents take yet another hit.
Manire said that inner Detroit’s young people “have few options other than to turn to drugs or crime, and many set up shop on abandoned blocks and sell drugs on the corner.” And since the city’s police are spread so thin, he added,“there’s little they can do.”
There are plenty of things the government can do to solve this problem. One that comes to mind is to send in unemployed to clean the place up. After that give them a free home. This would get thousands off the street and into shelter while saving tax payers a fortune. Are we just supposed to let an entire city die?
Our government are a bunch of useless morons for not doing more in this regard.
Are we just supposed to let an entire city die? I say yes we need all them money we can get to save Israel,After all Israel comes first,second & third!
@Stendec:
Huh? What? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
If CON-gress had not actively participated in the OUTSOURCING of the US industrial base, to RED COMMUNIST CHINA,(thank you Nixon) we wouldn’t be looking at this article. CONgress has an affinity for Communist countries it seems.
Industry will not be coming back the the US any time soon because American cannot afford to work for a cup of rice a day. And CON-gress would not profit off their investments if we did.
Government shouldn’t be asked to solve a problem it created. If the good people of Detroit want to recover the first thing they must do is wall the city off and disengage from the US monetary system, legal system and the corrupt political system. They must deploy a value based currency tied to
real value, their labor, a work credit system that cannot be taxed or
otherwise manipulated. Next disengage from a corrupt legal system that serves only the 1%. And finally disengage from a centralized political system.. Return to a tribal political system where all the important decisions are made by local representation. The government must be limited to
taxing consumption only not labor and prohibited from borrowing. If they
don’t facilitate economic growth they suffer too. “New Detroit” will proper
as the parasitic central government whithers and dies.
My Fellow Americans,
Based on the above comments, it seems to me that people in general still have not come to full grips with what has occured:
THE AMERICA WE GREW UP IN IS GONE,… AND IT WILL NOT BE BROUGHT BACK TO HER FORMER GLORY IN OUR LIFETIME,.. IF EVER!
Our country has intentionally been decimated.
Only now is the destructive consequences of this deliberate evisceration becoming plain to see and incontrovertable.
No country can survive as a consumer based society,.. and America has been reduced to sniveling, groveling , can’t make a damn thing of its own supplicant state.
Much of this destruction was intitated by The Federal Reserve Act in 1913,.. however,… many wealthy individuals and Bansters, collectively know as the NWO had a head start before the creation of The Fed,.. by many decades.
Ron Paul is not the answer or our saviour. He embodies many of the qualities we would like to believe can rejuvenate this country, but that is a tremendous error in judgement.
Even if Ron Paul was elected, ignoring the impossiblilty of such an event given the blantant corruption of our “election” system,… the moment Old Ron decided to NOT follow his marching orders from the Shadow Gov’t figures,.. he would end up dead,.. either a sudden heart attack,.. an unknown would be assassin,… plane crash,.. take your pick.
Even if Ron Paul were elected,… he could NOT possibly rebuild the Industrial Base that made America a powerhouse in a mere 4 year term. It took decades to build us, it took decades to destroy us. It is sometihng that can not be done overnight,.. or over the course of even a single decade.
There is only one viable solution in the end,… but like any pilot who’s plane is about to crash and “thinks” he can “save it”,… until its to late to bail out and he hits the ground,.. many Americans do not comprehend our intractable position at the moment,.. and are in the pilots seat thinking this aircraft called the USA can be righted before hittiing the ground,… it can NOT. The intentional damage is that extensive, that severe,.. and that destructive to our ability to alter the near future outcome.
IF, We The People, wish to save this country,.. . then the discourse NEEDS to move from talk of current discontents, and need to address the realities of what our immenient and mathematically certain furture is,… after that reality has set in,… then we can intiate the dialogue and what our only real options are,… which are few and simple indeed,…
WE The People,… of the United States,…in Order to form a more perfect Union,…establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,… provide for the common defence,.. promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, NEED to RE-ESTABLISH the Constitution for the United States of America.
This can ONLY be done by first eliminating the wholly rotted and cancerous malignancy which has invaded the body of this Republic,.. and has destoyed her,… the Tumor-Of-Tyranny that has spread across this land must be exorcised from existence or we shall follow the same pathway into oblivion and horror that all previous society’s, culture’s and Nation-States have suffered when there self-determined gov’t,.. became their enslavers.
It is time to Abolish our tresonous US Federal Gov’t and ALL it criminal agencies to the last.
Arrests and trials MUST then ensue for any/all government officials and especially ANYONE potentially linked as a Shadow Gov’t figure.
For those found guilty,.. there can be no compromise:
- They must be publicy hung,.. and left to rot off the rope.
- All their wealth seized.
- Washingtod DC MUST be abandoned and left to decay as a reminder to ALL furure generations to NEVER let our government become despotic again.
- Erect horrendous looking statues all around our former capital of the treators,.. in a hunched over, contorted manner, forever declaring their name and legacy as purveyors of treachery, and evil.
Yes,.. I know this sounds unworkable,… but that does not change the fact,.. this is what the basis of any legitimate solution looks like,.. sans details and explanations,.. but allow me to start the process here and now:
STEP 1:
Time to acknowledge there is NO legal, political or technical solution to save this country under current, or even near current conditions.
This country has been destoryed DELIBERATELY,.. and it has been done SUCCESSFULLY.
We, America, are simply in the final stages of our death throws, living only off our former legacy of greatness, our ruthless global conquests, and our ability to force other countries to prop up our worhtless currency.
Our only real exports can NOT support a country, which are:
– Death – In the form of our military escapades. Nearly ONE THOUSAND Military bases in over 130 countries,.. and growing.
– Debt – In the form of US Treasuries (IOU’s), that export our inflation, and is the bases of global currency manipulations.
– Garbage – In the form of one of our biggest exports to China,.. our trash.
First determine what is really occurring,.. acknowlegdge our legitimate options, however few they maybe,.. then make a disicion about what future you want,.. and what are you willing to do to obtain it.
JD – US Marines – Telling Americans,.. the country we all grew up in,.. IS GONE,.. and will not be coming back in our lifetimes,.. if ever.
I’m still forced to pay taxes because I work my ass off. Put the unemployed in this garbage heap of a city and give them a free home for work preformed to clean the damn place up. The unemployed still need a place to live.
All of us here are fully aware of the current situation, we have been screaming about for years now. Yes, take our country back, I understand that, until then, clean the damn place up and give homeless a free home for work preformed. It’s not rocket science.
You rock, period. This needs to be copied and pasted in any place it can be. I grow tired of people looking for the soothing stroke of mainstream bullsh*t, always claiming conspiracy theory because TV and njewspaper didn’t say so.
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““The city has an annual tradition of burning homes on October 30th in an event called Devil’s Night. The city is so desperate that it can’t keep up with all the arsons,” Nathan Manire, a New York-based artist from Detroit, told RT.”
Devil’s Night? Didn’t I see that in the movie, “The Crow”?
“No, I want you to set a fire so goddamn big, the gods’ll notice us again, that’s what I’m sayin’. I want all of you boys to be able to look me straight in the eye one more time and say: ARE WE HAVING FUN OR WHAT?”
“Ya know, my daddy used to say every man’s got a devil. And you can’t rest ’til you find him. What happened back there with you and your girlfriend – I cleared that building. Hell, nothin’ in this town happens without my say-so. So I’m sorry if I spoiled your wedding plans there, friend. But, if it’s any consolation to you, you have put a smile on my face. ”
My personal favorite that describes the Illuminati’s highest elite members:
“Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that’s fun!”
(Quotes from Michael Wincott as Top Dollar in The Crow)
Actually these quotes may have been funny in a dark comical way back then, when the movie first came out, but they are becoming closer to our new reality as time goes on. Be prepared, people.
It’s sad that Americans have slept through the decimation of their own country and seem to prefer sports and television to the reality of losing their entire nation and the freedoms we once enjoyed and we have only ourselves to blame for allowing these things to happen.
When the ILLEGAL ALIEN CEO conducts his next “Event” to be used against the sleeping public to completely overthrow this once great nation and then the sleeping people will awaken to the reality of what living in a dictatorship is all about.
All your false patriotism that has been instilled in you is coming around full circle and will soon bite you right where you have been sitting all this time watching those same TV shows that taught you how to ignore your government while they raped you monetarily and stole from you your very freedoms that you thought you had.
Welcome to BABYLON !!!!!!!!!!!!!
If organized Jewry should ever get a foothold in Amerika, either politically or financially, a nation with such vast resources but such little intellect. It will end up resembling a stricken child with elephantitis, a mushroom nation, destroyed before it has even reached full maturity.
A.Hitler.
@ P.N.A.C.: What, precisely, do you mean by “IF”?
@P.N.A,C.
“Amerika” should be “Americcca” (CCCP) !!!
RESIST !!!