city limits. what that translates to, unfortunately, is about 14 acts of arson a day. nearly 5,000 a year. that s just arson. that doesn t include the thousands of other types of fires and medical emergencies the detroit fire department responds to every day. with an ever-lower valued housing market where you can buy a home for as little as $500, many houses are burned down for the insurance. many because angry neighbors, desperate to hang on, see abandoned structures taken over by crackheads or drug gangs. with law enforcement stretched ridiculously thin, they resort to burning them out. they won t say it. i will. the detroit fire department is underfunded, underequipped, often badly and incompetently led, and up against what seems like a never-ending war. a city on fire. their safety equipment, their
within detroit s 140 square mile city limits. what that translates to, unfortunately, is about 14 acts of arson a day. nearly 5,000 a year. that s just arson. that doesn t include the thousands of other types of fires and medical emergencies the detroit fire department responds to every day. with an ever-lower valued housing market where you can buy a home for as little as $500, many houses are burned down for the insurance. many because angry neighbors, desperate to hang on, see abandoned structures taken over by crackheads or drug gangs. with law enforcement stretched ridiculously thin, they resort to burning them out. they won t say it. i will. the detroit fire department is underfunded, underequipped, often badly and incompetently led, and up against what seems like a never-ending war. a city on fire.
line, but it was kind of hard. after facing walls for 15 years and handcuffs everywhere i went, i didn t adjust too well. i still became more assaultive, more combative, more violent. after 25 years of incarceration, randall had plenty of violent episodes to share. i had threw a bomb in an inmate s cell and blew his toilet off the wall and blew a patch of his leg off. an officer came to my door. i made a zip gun out of some magazines and i shot him in the face. as the story unfolds about why he s there, what he s done in prison, it can send chills up your spine. then it occurs to you, i m sitting right in front of this guy. anything can happen to me. most of randall s violence was directed at his cellmates. i don t have a problem taking a cellie but what i have a problem with is crackheads. people who don t know how to gel. people who like expose themselves to female staff. i have a mother and sister. i don t play that.
there are approximately 80,000 abandoned buildings within detroit s 140 square mile city limits. what that translates to, unfortunately, is about 14 acts of arson a day. nearly 5,000 a year. that s just arson. that doesn t include the thousands of other types of fires and medical emergencies the detroit fire department responds to every day. with an ever-lower valued housing market where you can buy a home for as little as $500, many houses are burned down for the insurance. many because angry neighbors, desperate to hang on, see abandoned structures taken over by crackheads or drug gangs. with law enforcement stretched ridiculously thin, they resort to burning them out. they won t say it. i will. the detroit fire department is
within detroit s 140 square mile city limits. what that translates to, unfortunately, is about 14 acts of arson a day. nearly 5,000 a year. that s just arson. that doesn t include the thousands of other types of fires and medical emergencies the detroit fire department responds to every day. with an ever-lower valued housing market where you can buy a home for as little as $500, many houses are burned down for the insurance. many because angry neighbors, desperate to hang on, see abandoned structures taken over by crackheads or drug gangs. with law enforcement stretched ridiculously thin, they resort to burning them out. they won t say it. i will. the detroit fire department is underfunded, underequipped, often badly and incompetently led, and up against what seems like a never-ending war. a city on fire.