Shots Fired While Detroit Television Reporter Gases Up
3,247 views · Published 10 September 2013 · 4:50 · Indexed 22 September 2026
Channel: Matthew Phillips · 2013 · News & Politics
In an effort to make Detroit safer, city officials have been begging residents to speak up and report crimes. However, when I, a Detroit resident, witnessed a crime, I found out speaking up was not as easy as it should be. "There's a lot of young people in the City of Detroit that have adopted this no snitch policy," Detroit Police Chief James Craig said recently. "There's this fear that if I talk, I could be hurt." "We've got to change the way people think." If you have heard it once, you have heard it a million times in Detroit. The only way to stop the no snitch culture and put the bad guys behind bars is to speak up. In other words, if you see something, you have got to say something. That is why when I saw some punk firing a gun down a city street in broad daylight, I called 911. However, I did not get the response that you would expect, and I did not get the response you deserve.
