Fire Commissioner Donald Austin has his causality backwards.
"Name another city in the United States that lost 200,000 people in 10 years," Austin told the Detroit Free Press ( on.freep.com/I21PTT) for a story Sunday, citing U.S. Census figures. "So we're in a unique position. And I believe it takes unique approaches to deal with situations that are not the norm."
Wide swaths of Detroit's once-teeming neighborhoods now consist of scattered occupied homes, surrounded by boarded-up structures, burned-out husks and weed-covered vacant lots.
He is acting as if the city’s combination of lack of money and abundance of “boarded-up structures” were some natural disaster the city’s leaders were confronted with, and which they must contend with. Rather, they caused that situation, by stealing all of the money that they seized from white taxpayers—first at the municipal, and then after murderously racist Detroit blacks ran them out of town, at the state level—and refusing to provide the services the whites paid for.
Note that when I say, “the services the whites paid for,” in this context, I mean, for racist, Detroit blacks, as opposed to the services that whites paid for for themselves, since the white tax base must always pay repeatedly—for themselves, for blacks, and for Hispanics.
Another thing that Fire Commissioner Austin neglected to mention is that racist Detroit blacks instituted the annual “celebration” of setting much of the city on fire every year, the night before Halloween (“Devil’s Night”), which also helped chase 200,000 people out of town.
At the San Francisco Chronicle, where I read this story, I saw mainly three types of comment:
1. Brain-dead Republicans, who assert, against all history, that Detroit was destroyed by Democratic rule;
2. Brain-dead Democrats who assert, against all history, that after squandering hundreds of billions of dollars from white taxpayers on Detroit, seizing a trillion or so more white taxpayer dollars will rebuild it; and
3. The brain-dead of ambiguous politics, who assert, against all history, that Detroit was destroyed by being a one-industry town.
Detroit was destroyed by murderous black supremacy, including an African-style kleptocracy, whose members stole all the money meant to run the city, while providing little or no public services, and running out all of the productive, law-abiding, net-taxpaying white people.
Black supremacy has chased over 1,000,000 people out of Detroit.
Detroit fire boss: Let some vacant buildings burn
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle
(04-22) 12:52 PDT Detroit, MI (AP) --
The Detroit Fire Department could adjust to a looming 15 percent budget cut by allowing some abandoned buildings burn to the ground, according to the city's top fire official.
Executive Fire Commissioner Donald Austin said his is creating three proposals for Mayor Dave Bing to consider when making deep reductions to the 2012-13 budget, likely to be below this fiscal year's $183 million. Detroit is going through a state-monitored budget overhaul under a deal reached between Gov. Rick Snyder and city officials, an alternative to a state-appointed emergency manager.
"I'll give (Bing) every penny I can without cutting people," said Austin, a former Los Angeles assistant fire chief who became head of Detroit fire operations last May.
Detroit stands out from other large U.S. cities and will need to take drastic steps to meet its service needs, he said.
"Name another city in the United States that lost 200,000 people in 10 years," Austin told the Detroit Free Press ( on.freep.com/I21PTT) for a story Sunday, citing U.S. Census figures. "So we're in a unique position. And I believe it takes unique approaches to deal with situations that are not the norm."
Wide swaths of Detroit's once-teeming neighborhoods now consist of scattered occupied homes, surrounded by boarded-up structures, burned-out husks and weed-covered vacant lots.
One of Austin's proposals would allow vacant buildings to burn if they're more than 50 percent ablaze — as long as they're not a risk to inhabited structures and the weather is favorable. Austin said about 40 to 60 percent of the fires in Detroit are in vacant structures.
Another proposal is to ask the U.S. Navy's construction division, the Seabees, to level 10,000 vacant and dilapidated homes.
And a third is to create a demolition unit in the fire department, Austin said, using heavy equipment to level the remnants of newly burned buildings. The unit would be similar to a tractor company Austin created in Los Angeles to cut breaks around wildfires, maintain hillside fire roads and overhaul large industrial fires.
"When these houses burn up and there's no value left, I can get my firefighters, with proper training, to raze that house — get rid of it," he said.
Detroit Fire Fighters Association President Daniel McNamara said he opposes Austin's idea of letting vacant homes burn, unless they're on a predetermined demolition list, as is the case in Flint.
"If we could have that kind of communication, we wouldn't have this kind of discussion right now," McNamara said.
[Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this article.
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