Detroit Citizens No Longer Rely on Police as Self-Defense Killings Skyrocket
February 9th, 2012Via: The Daily:
Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own. And they’re offering no apologies.
“We got to have a little Old West up here in Detroit. That’s what it’s gonna take,” Detroit resident Julia Brown told The Daily.
The last time Brown, 73, called the Detroit police, they didn’t show up until the next day. So she applied for a permit to carry a handgun and says she’s prepared to use it against the young thugs who have taken over her neighborhood, burglarizing entire blocks, opening fire at will and terrorizing the elderly with impunity.
“I don’t intend to be one of their victims,” said Brown, who has lived in Detroit since the late 1950s. “I’m planning on taking one out.”
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The city’s wealthier enclaves have hired private security firms. Intimidating men in armored trucks patrol streets lined with gracious old homes in a scene more likely seen in Mexico City than the United States.
That kind of paid protection can run residents anywhere from $10 to $200 per month, and companies say business is good.
“We’re booming,” said Dale Brown, the owner of Threat Management Group, which along with Recon Security patrols neighborhoods like Palmer Woods in black Hummers.
“We’re paramilitary, but we’re positive. I’m not a vigilante. I’m an agent of change.”
Research Credit: roaches
The only government we need is a pistol in everyone’s pocket.
I see this a positive as free market solutions rise in the aftermath of a failed monopoly.
i’m interested that this is working, and that it’s being allowed to go on. “free market solutions” are not often permitted, especially when things like guns and killing are involved…
makes me think maybe this is an ad-lib social experiment by the government: let’s see how bad it can get before we have to step in. the question is why they are interested in seeing what happens in the first place.
small steps towards forcing/helping the populace to prepare for a lack of institutional support (post-collapse, maybe)? do they know something we don’t… or rather, what is it they know that we don’t?
yeah, that’s a lot of ifs and maybes. but it strikes me as pretty shocking that these “agents of change” in uniform or floral smocks are out there in the open and nobody is fussing over it.
I wouldn’t say this is being “allowed” – it is filling a vacuum – No paychecks, no police.
current trend/longterm plan: privatize anything and everything that isnt absolutely essential to the longterm plan. untill it is no longer required, then privatize. free market blablabla *godkillme*
No Snowcrash mention, Kevin? 😀
@neologiste the “Wild West” really wasn’t all that wild, it was an invention of hollywood for the most part.
Most people (98%) are decent people that just want to go about their lives without harming anyone.
Exactly. Evil-doers would torture, pillage, rape, and kill us unless we have lots and lots of government to protect us is a myth spread by the government. Actually governments do 99% of the torturing, pillaging, raping, and killing. We’d be 1000% better off with no government at all.
too bad none of the demographics today would let that come to pass, even in these destabilized civil war nations being raped for natural resources, you can bet your ass some quazi-gov structure aka warlords are being protected in their position of authority. i think in most places in the world, people are so accustomed to violence working that they would just recreate gov/mob extortion themselves if you gave them a chance to live without government. kinda endemic, although i suppose if there ever were an opportunity for self/non rule it probably would only come from an informed nonviolent approach anyway.
i still feel alan moore says it best when it comes to anarchy:
i figured it was time to brush up on v for vendetta what with all the protesters in the masks and wahtnot. strange times we live in.