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"When I asked for a point of comparison, he said Detroit was 4%." The stats on Detroit emergency responders are utterly embarrassing. You pretty much can't cou
by elmuchoprez 14y ago
"When I asked for a point of comparison, he said Detroit was 4%."
The stats on Detroit emergency responders are utterly embarrassing. You pretty much can't count on police, fire or EMT even if you had a gunshot wound in a burning house and the shooter was still there.
So I'm guessing the issue in Detroit is less about technique and more about no access to trained responders.
*And to be clear, I'm not blaming the emergency responders in Detroit for the problem. The city is huge and spread out so it takes a long time to get to the scene, there's no funding for additional outposts or training, and the jobs are dangerous making them unattractive to people with other options, and there's a higher than average amount of serious crime and emergencies.
- pyre 14y agoAt it's height Detroit was a city of ~2 million people. As of the 2004(?) census, the city fell below 1 million (~800k?) and lost a lot of Federal funding, spawning the constant budget crisis; furthering the downward spiral.