What percentage of your city's police department actually goes out and patrols the streets?
August 21, 2011
What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Detroit? Crime? That's probably the answer for a lot of people, including the one's who live there.
Check out this Detroit Free Press column by Stephen Henderson this morning about how only half of Detroit's cops are actually on patrol duty and then what half of those folks do?
Does that raise questions about your city and what percentage of your cops are actually on the streets and in the neighborhoods? It should. Who would have the answers? City council members might be a good start.