Knimrod
03-11-2006, 12:00 AM
Crime imbalance
March 09, 2006
The Saginaw News
Violent crime is so bad in Saginaw, Bay City's criminals are afraid to ply their crooked trade here.
Unfortunately, that's not the punch line to a bad joke.
It's what a deputy chief in the Bay City Police Department told The Bay City Times in an article Feb. 22 about the crime problem in the South End of Bay City. Saginaw County Prosecutor Mike Thomas related that shameful news nugget to Saginaw City Council members Monday night.
Not only are Bay City's thugs and gangs a bunch of pikers, the deputy chief said "drug dealers are forced almost to come to Bay City to sell their drugs because buyers won't go to Saginaw."
Thomas was stressing the notion that crime knows no boundaries -- and that Saginaw citizens have a responsibility to attack the city's violent crime epidemic.
Nine weeks into the year, guns have killed seven people and wounded another 19 in the city. Saginaw City Councilman William J. Federspiel, a Saginaw Township cop by day, emphasized the number is almost three gun victims per week.
"We need to get our city back from the criminals," he said.
And make no mistake. When crooks in other towns are afraid of Saginaw's violence, when it's too risky for drug users to feed their addictions here, there's little question who controls the streets.
Link to story (http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1141914118272790.xml?sanews?NESE&coll=9)
March 09, 2006
The Saginaw News
Violent crime is so bad in Saginaw, Bay City's criminals are afraid to ply their crooked trade here.
Unfortunately, that's not the punch line to a bad joke.
It's what a deputy chief in the Bay City Police Department told The Bay City Times in an article Feb. 22 about the crime problem in the South End of Bay City. Saginaw County Prosecutor Mike Thomas related that shameful news nugget to Saginaw City Council members Monday night.
Not only are Bay City's thugs and gangs a bunch of pikers, the deputy chief said "drug dealers are forced almost to come to Bay City to sell their drugs because buyers won't go to Saginaw."
Thomas was stressing the notion that crime knows no boundaries -- and that Saginaw citizens have a responsibility to attack the city's violent crime epidemic.
Nine weeks into the year, guns have killed seven people and wounded another 19 in the city. Saginaw City Councilman William J. Federspiel, a Saginaw Township cop by day, emphasized the number is almost three gun victims per week.
"We need to get our city back from the criminals," he said.
And make no mistake. When crooks in other towns are afraid of Saginaw's violence, when it's too risky for drug users to feed their addictions here, there's little question who controls the streets.
Link to story (http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1141914118272790.xml?sanews?NESE&coll=9)