Detroit P.D. Charging Fees for Higher Priority
May 6, 2019 00:04:23 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
https://boingboing.net/2018/01/30/for-a-few-thousand-bucks-detr.html
If someone has been trashing your Detroit gas station for an hour, and cops still haven't responded, chances are your business hasn't enrolled in Project Green Light.
The idea is that the green light will attract customers by deterring criminals. All you have to do join is install a small fortune in surveillance equipment and a prominent green light, then give police direct access to all the livestreams in your business. Via Detroit News:
Businesses pay between $4,000 and $6,000 to join Project Green Light, a program that allows police to monitor businesses’ video surveillance feeds in real time. The cost covers installation of high-definition cameras and lighting. There also is a monthly fee of up to $150 for cloud-based video storage.
In exchange, participating companies are given Priority 1 status on police dispatches — but some business owners who don’t participate feel they’re being treated like secondary citizens.
“It’s not fair,” said Abdo Nagi, owner of a 76 gas station on Grand River on Detroit’s west side that is not part of the program. “We should all be equal. I pay high taxes already. Now I have to pay extra to get the police to come?
They may soon start making it mandatory for certain kinds of businesses.
If someone has been trashing your Detroit gas station for an hour, and cops still haven't responded, chances are your business hasn't enrolled in Project Green Light.
The idea is that the green light will attract customers by deterring criminals. All you have to do join is install a small fortune in surveillance equipment and a prominent green light, then give police direct access to all the livestreams in your business. Via Detroit News:
Businesses pay between $4,000 and $6,000 to join Project Green Light, a program that allows police to monitor businesses’ video surveillance feeds in real time. The cost covers installation of high-definition cameras and lighting. There also is a monthly fee of up to $150 for cloud-based video storage.
In exchange, participating companies are given Priority 1 status on police dispatches — but some business owners who don’t participate feel they’re being treated like secondary citizens.
“It’s not fair,” said Abdo Nagi, owner of a 76 gas station on Grand River on Detroit’s west side that is not part of the program. “We should all be equal. I pay high taxes already. Now I have to pay extra to get the police to come?
They may soon start making it mandatory for certain kinds of businesses.
May 6, 2019 00:04:59 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
dtucker300 wrote:
This is the beginning of the end of the United States. An AR-15 would be cheaper.
May 6, 2019 01:52:09 #
dtucker300 wrote:
This seems to negate the taxes business owners and other citizens pay for police protection.
It has the distinction of resembling either a mob protection racket or an advanced, Hillary-style forced pay-to-play operation. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Leave it to a city run by "progressives," right?
May 6, 2019 01:54:27 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
Seth wrote:
This seems to negate the taxes business owners and other citizens pay for police protection, and has the distinction of resembling a mob protection racket.
Leave it to a city run by "progressives," right?
Leave it to a city run by "progressives," right?
It sure does. This sounds more like something from The Onion.
May 6, 2019 01:57:06 #
dtucker300 wrote:
It sure does. This sounds more like something from The Onion.
I added a bit to my post on an additional thought.
But yeah, the Onion, CNN, MSNBC...
May 6, 2019 02:26:35 #
dtucker300 wrote:
This is the beginning of the end of the United States. An AR-15 would be cheaper.
An AR-10 would be more threatening and a lot less of survivors coming back to sue you.
May 6, 2019 02:37:31 #
dtucker300 wrote:
Or they could elect anyone but democrats that turn everything they touch into a crime and drug infested s**t hole with no jobs or future. Where crime is the only way of getting ahead.
May 6, 2019 03:00:46 #
badbob85037 wrote:
Or they could elect anyone but democrats that turn everything they touch into a crime and drug infested s**t hole with no jobs or future. Where crime is the only way of getting ahead.
The Democratic Party formula seems to be to find cities where there are a lot of complete morons, uneducated people and masochists, lie, c***t and steal to take over the political machinery and then convert order into chaos, tax, regulate and bleach the character out of the political subdivision and once they've brought everything down to a state of filth, crime and misery, and this is where the morons, masochists and uneducated come in... Continue getting reelected until the city has been reduced to a grim, satanic no-man's land, at which time they will have every future e******n sewn up because by then, the only v**ers who haven't moved elsewhere will be the... You guessed it, the morons, the masochists and the uneducated.
May 6, 2019 03:35:18 #
TommyRadd
Loc: Midwest USA
Seth wrote:
This seems to negate the taxes business owners and other citizens pay for police protection.
It has the distinction of resembling either a mob protection racket or an advanced, Hillary-style forced pay-to-play operation. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Leave it to a city run by "progressives," right?
It has the distinction of resembling either a mob protection racket or an advanced, Hillary-style forced pay-to-play operation. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Leave it to a city run by "progressives," right?
My thoughts exactly. A “legalized” mafia-style protection racket.
May 6, 2019 06:15:10 #
dtucker300 wrote:
This is the beginning of the end of the United States. An AR-15 would be cheaper.
May 6, 2019 06:15:41 #
Seth wrote:
This seems to negate the taxes business owners and other citizens pay for police protection.
It has the distinction of resembling either a mob protection racket or an advanced, Hillary-style forced pay-to-play operation. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Leave it to a city run by "progressives," right?
It has the distinction of resembling either a mob protection racket or an advanced, Hillary-style forced pay-to-play operation. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Leave it to a city run by "progressives," right?
May 6, 2019 06:16:20 #
badbob85037 wrote:
Or they could elect anyone but democrats that turn everything they touch into a crime and drug infested s**t hole with no jobs or future. Where crime is the only way of getting ahead.
TRUE STORY
May 6, 2019 07:58:15 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
dtucker300 wrote:
In the 30's, the Mob called such programs............................a protection racket.
May 6, 2019 08:02:45 #
dtucker300 wrote:
Sounds like the mafia protection plan of days before~~
May 6, 2019 08:23:21 #
lindajoy wrote:
Sounds like the mafia protection plan of days before~~
That was my second thought my first was that this had to be satire.
This country is sinking fast
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