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[Jackson Belle Grande]

While CBP doesn't exactly have Preliminary Breathylizer Test machines at the Bridge or Tunnel, they used to stop blatantly drunk drivers & hold them for DPD, but the problem was, DPD dispatch would never be able to say how long it'd be before they could have a unit respond, do the test, & make an arrest. CBP would get desperate, since some of these people were extremely wasted, and would try calling the MSP Detroit Post to see if they had anyone available. Meanwhile, the drunk person is hanging out in the CBP office stinking-up the place, being loud & obnoxious, etc. They're not in-custody, yet if they fall & crack their skull, CBP will get sued...[LEFT]
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Think Homeland Security or ICE or Border Patrol would jump right on it if the local cops called about a Mexican wading across the Rio Grande??

[Remisc]

Can I ask where in the city this was?

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by Remisc

Can I ask where in the city this was?

If you are referring to the original post, it was on the I75 Northbound from Downriver. I first saw her as we came over the hill at the Marathon refinery. She was out of sight by the time I got to where the people taking the 94 exit on the left. Why, did you get creamed by a lady in a red Charger driving like an insane person?

[Remisc]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

If you are referring to the original post, it was on the I75 Northbound from Downriver. I first saw her as we came over the hill at the Marathon refinery. She was out of sight by the time I got to where the people taking the 94 exit on the left. Why, did you get creamed by a lady in a red Charger driving like an insane person?

No, but I was sitting at the light at Mount Elliot and East Grand (by the Packard Plant) when a Charger pulled up next to me, almost running the red light before slamming on her brakes. I rolled down my window and told her to pay more attention to the road, as someone could've been crossing there. The woman behind the wheel gave 'the finger' as the light turned green and took off like a Nascar driver while making a turn IN FRONT OF ME on East Grand towards Van Dyke. I didn't think anything of it, but I wish I would've called DP now.

[Shinhiryuu]

Originally Posted by Jackson Belle Grande

Think Homeland Security or ICE or Border Patrol would jump right on it if the local cops called about a Mexican wading across the Rio Grande??

Raccciisssttt, why couldnt it just be anyone crossing? Lots of Asians and other than mexicans cross through Mexico. Also the Rio Grande is almost gone, so you would mean running the Rio Grande. Also since we're up North we couldnt say, a maple leafer crossing to Belle Island? RACCCIISST

[Shinhiryuu]

I have yet to call the police since I've been in Detroit about a driver. In LA I did almost once a week, I seen people throwing glass bottles at each other while hanging out the window. People serving all the lanes including the carpool without signaling, like their drunk. Even seen a dead body once on the side of the freeway ( no lie, was on the news). Detroit is very tame, sure you get annoying people who dont signal, and stuff, but for the most part I feel safer here

Even seen pepole tagging on the side of the freeway before, thought to mention that.

[us66]

Originally Posted by Shinhiryuu

I have yet to call the police since I've been in Detroit about a driver. In LA I did almost once a week, I seen people throwing glass bottles at each other while hanging out the window. People serving all the lanes including the carpool without signaling, like their drunk. Even seen a dead body once on the side of the freeway ( no lie, was on the news). Detroit is very tame, sure you get annoying people who dont signal, and stuff, but for the most part I feel safer here

Even seen pepole tagging on the side of the freeway before, thought to mention that.

94 somewhere within the Detroit city limits has a dead dog on a pretty regular basis. Tagging on the freeway? It's gotta happen sometime...don't know how or when, but there's always something new. I don't know how they get up to the overhead signs to tag them, though. There was one on 94 in Macomb County a couple of years ago but they replaced it with one in the new font. IIRC 95 in south Florida has barbed wire on the overhead signs, but I haven't been to Florida since '99.

Calling the police in Detroit? They'll probably tell you to move. That happened to my grandmother at least once in north Warren, and I can't imagine Detroit being any more polite.

[canudigit]

Originally Posted by us66

Calling the police in Detroit? They'll probably tell you to move. That happened to my grandmother at least once in north Warren, and I can't imagine Detroit being any more polite.

Yep, that's how it seems to work. Like you're to blame for wanting to be safe in their city. When I was a home hospice nurse last year, we had a patient who lived in a very bad part of Detroit. Since I worked evenings and nights, I was doubly concerned about getting called out to her house, so I called the DPD per my boss's instructions to see if they would send a police escort if I got called to that patient's house at night. The person I spoke to not only ridiculed me for asking for such protection, but she also cautioned me that if I did drive into that neighborhood after dark, I would probably get "parked in" to the patient's driveway by thugs and that I needed to just stay out of Detroit, because there would be no help forthcoming if I needed it. Nice.

Don't get me wrong, I love Detroit, and I am rooting for this city to be great once again like a lot of you, but there's no reason for this kind of attitude. If even the police have given up, what hope is there until that mindset changes?

[Jackson Belle Grande]

Don't get me wrong, I love Detroit, and I am rooting for this city to be great once again like a lot of you, but there's no reason for this kind of attitude. If even the police have given up, what hope is there until that mindset changes?[LEFT]
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Anyone who reads my posts knows I'm no gratuitous Detroit booster. However. What did you expect when you called the DPD for a private security escort? They have something like 2,300 total cops when they used to have 5,000. That's not counting the cops off on disability most likely. And YOU expect them to give you a private escort when nothing has even happened yet? Puh-lease. They can't even patrol the neighborhoods or respond to MAJOR violent crimes in a timely fashion, but you think you're entitled to special treatment?

My dad died in hospice care. The fees for the services rendered that were charged to the insurance company were OBSCENE! Thousands of dollars per day for a nurse(??) to come by and administer some morphine and change a catheter bag. I think the medical scam/business is going to be the next crash, like the housing market and banking business. If the company you work for felt you needed protection, THEY should hire a private contractor to provide it, not expect the Detroit Police to provide security guard service.

It's no wonder they ridiculed you.

[cheezit34141988]

With regards to the border crossing and the CBP guards not really giving a hoot...I can reluctantly admit that it is the case. In the past (hindsight is 20/20), I've come over the bridge at 3:30 in the morning, with a car full of 19/20 year olds (in club attire, giggling, reeking), and been told to drive safe, and that we were lucky Detroit PD had "worse things to deal with". I would have to say however, that by far the more intense scrutiny I've had has been at the tunnel. I dated a Windsor resident for a little over a year; crossing 2-3 times a week; and man are they brutal in questioning.