#LowerDetritCrime

According to Forbes, Detroit is the number one most dangerous city in the country for the fourth year in a row. Even with rates having lowered 10%, crime rates are still five times the national average. Some citizens don't even feel safe in their own city, but what can the police do about that? It turns out, it is not only the job of the police, but of the citizens themselves and the economy to help make not only Detroit, but a lot of other cities a safe place to live as well. Until the police can figure out budgeting and better safety precautions, the least citizens can do it self-police and not stay quiet about what they feel may be threatening them.

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Crime in Detroit is on the rise and nothing seems to be happening to fix that as of late. Currently, response time to a police call in Detroit is 58 minutes on average compared to the national average of 11 minutes. How are citizens supposed to feel safe with rates like these? Who should be responsible for changing it? Granted the crime rates fluctuate yearly, it is never enough to get them low enough to get the city off of the list for most dangerous city in the world. How do the Detroit Police plan to help change this and when?

#DetroitYouthWorks

Grow Detroit’s Young Talents is a program created by City Connect Detroit and has been around for a long time. 

It’s dedicated to giving children ages 14-24 work experience for a summer and helping them build experience and resumes as told by the official website. 

The kids can do anything from office work to community service, as the Police Cadets often helps with. The Police Cadets is a program that helps with Grow Detroit's Young Talent. 

Mayor Duggan has helped Grow Detroit’s Young Talent show the youth of Detroit a different way to spend their time and build their futures. 

They can return as many summers as they like within the age range.

#DetroitYouthWorks

Mayor Mike Duggan announced in January that he would be recreating the Grow Detroit's Young Talent program in order to give over 5,000 of Detroit's youth jobs for the summer. In order to pull this off, Duggan had to accept funding from anonymous donors to recreate the program entirely so that they would have enough resources to support 5,000+ kids. Duggan had to find more employers willing to host groups of kids for the summer. He agreed to match every dollar paid up to $1,000 according to a program participant. Grow Detroit’s Young Talent is a great way to keep our youth out of trouble.

#momonthrun

When it’s finally time for Mrs. Martin to take the trip she’s been planning for a week, poor planning gets in her way. She’s supposed to be on her way to Michigan State, but spread herself pretty thin in the 12 hours before her trip.  Mrs. Martin is the proud parent of 19-year-old twins and a 17-year-old son. She has one daughter home for the summer and one who stayed at school. Mrs. Martin and he husband planned to visit, but they both cut it really close. Mrs. Martin went to an all night prayed and did not return home until 7a.m. She was supposed to be gone by 1p.m, but did not leave until around 4. Her husband did not leave until around 6 due to his basket ball game. While they both were there before dark, their schedules were thrown off and so was Cydni’s.

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Mrs. Martin had been planning a trip for about a week to visit her first twin daughter, Cydni Robinson. Cydni stayed in Lansing for the summer and needed to see her mother. Mrs.Martin had also planned to go to an all night prayer the night before her trip the next morning. Her husband, was supposed to come be he also planned to play basketball the same day. Too exhausted to drive, she fell asleep longer than she expected. Mrs. Martin would soon see what a toll poor planning can take when it comes to time management and not rushing through her morning.