I think this is a good idea. There is an uptick in homicides. That trend cannot continue. The homicide rate in Flint doesn't compare to the violence in Detroit. But, Detroit is experiencing a fall in homicide statistics (click here).
FOX News did note that COVID-19 has killed more people than any years of homicides even if the past two years were added together (click here).
May 15, 2020
The city of Flint’s police department (click here) is reestablishing cooperative relationships with college police departments to increase community patroling.
Mayor Sheldon Neeley made the announcement alongside Michigan State Flint Post Lt. Yvonne Brantley, University of Michigan-Flint Police Chief Ray Hall, and Mott Community College Police Chief Michael Odette on Friday, May 15. The partnership wasn’t renewed by the previous administration, according to the city.
Michigan State Police and the city’s police department have a longstanding relationship, according to Neeley. The mayor says crime overall is down but there have been two more homicides this year than happened up to the same point last year.
“Every single loss of life in our community is heartbreaking,” Neeley said. “Through the hard work of the Flint police and our renewed cooperative relationships with other police agencies, we are working proactively to do everything in our power to fight crime.”
Fourteen people have been killed in Flint as of May 14, “a small uptick” Neeley said from the 12 people who were killed by this time last year. There were 43 people killed in Flint in 2019....
There is news about the court case regarding Flint. I stated before there is every reason to believe justice will occur in regard to the poisoning by the Snyder government. The opposition is throwing everything at the effort and the Attorney General's office is receiving respect from the court system.
You have to be a believer when there is a corrupt government manipulating the facts. The people of Michigan did the right thing two elections ago in demanding an end to the Emergency Manager program by voter referendum. Then Snyder manipulated the law and reinstated it. Now, when an entire state says to the governor they want the harassment of current law to stop and the governor has the almighty gall to ignore them and proceed as a dictator the fact there is corruption is completely obvious.
I will remind, the CHARACTER of the Emergency Manager law changed within the Snyder administration and the Republican State legislature. The OLD Emergency Manager law was about the schools and cities having problems with their budget and costs. The state under the old law was to protect children from the financial hardship of the city. It was absolutely the right thing to do.
At the time of the old law, the cities were between a rock and a hard place. Jobs were exported out of the state and unemployment was very high. The revenues to the city fell as people became impoverished and the state needed to step in and protect the children. It was definitely the right thing to do. This same law was changed under Snyder to a monstrous law that took away the rights of the voter and destroyed local government and authority.
Anyone with a casual interest in the local government could clearly understand there was something every wrong, but, the courts were unable to battle back in favor of any plaintiff because it was the Michigan State legislature that passed the law. It was the law of the land and it was impossible to remove the constraints the state issued on the local governments.
Snyder had the idea that if a city wasn't doing well it needed the SUPERIOR management of the Governor's office through the new emergency manager law. Along with acting way out of the understanding of democracy, Snyder had his own agenda for his friends. In city after city, his friends were able to obtain land and water rights and all sorts of things. So, city debt be damned the balance sheet would be pleasing to the governor's eyes.
In some cities in Michigan, they lost their parks and waterfronts. In the case of Flint, there was a radio station removed from the cities assets and the water bills were too high in the estimation of the Snyder Emergency Manager so it was decided to put Flint into the water business, but, the water was poison after decades of pollution. The pollution of the Flint River contained caustic elements and would interact with the lead pipes in town. No buffer was added to the water to prevent the leaching of the lead.
So. Here we are in 2020 with a Governor in Whitmer who is sincerely interested in the people, their quality of life, and what happened in Flint. She doesn't seem to have a lot of friends hanging around waiting for their payoff. And look at this. A court is actually interested in the law and justice and working with the AG to find the absolute best path forward to negate all the corruption of the past.
This isn't over.
May 12, 2020
A Genesee County Circuit judge (click here) ruled last week that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office could continue representing both the state government and Flint residents in court despite allegations that the arrangement created a conflict of interest.
Genesee County Circuit Judge Joseph Farah said, despite some “causes for concern,” disqualification was a “drastic remedy.” Besides, he wrote Wednesday, several conflicts have been resolved since the issue was first raised in March 2019 by plaintiffs’ attorney Corey Stern....
