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Os Cangaceiros
8th February 2012, 22:32
The people of Detroit are taking no prisoners.

Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own. And they’re offering no apologies.

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/05/020512-news-detroit-vigilantes-1-5/

The part about private security in affluent neighborhoods was interesting ("we're paramilitary but we're positive" lol)

runequester
8th February 2012, 22:33
Libertarian paradise!

Rafiq
8th February 2012, 23:09
The cops show up in two hours in some places here.... No surprise.

Bostana
8th February 2012, 23:12
The cops show up in two hours in some places here.... No surprise.

Amen to That.

Die Neue Zeit
11th February 2012, 05:55
Libertarian paradise!

Don't be quick to rush to this conclusion. Increased cynicism towards the bourgeois police apparatus ("pigs") is very good. The private security activity is worrisome, but "neighborhood watch groups in Detroit [being] widely armed" suggests popular organization to be welcomed.

Drowzy_Shooter
11th February 2012, 06:24
This is a good thing. I've always been a big supporter for an individuals right to own and use a firearm. It's nice to see people realizing that the police show up after you've been killed/robbed. Not before.


From a political view, the private security could become worrying, but as long as it doesn't get out of hand we'll be okay.

Rusty Shackleford
11th February 2012, 06:29
Self Defense isnt a bad thing (http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/civil-rights-and-the.html)