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An article in today's Detroit Free Press states that crime has become such a problem that some Detroit teachers are carrying hammers for protection, and the schools are looking to hire dozens of laid off police officers to protect the campuses: http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060303/OPINION01/603030337/1068/OPINION
The school mentioned in the article is Marquette Elementary on Detroit northeast side. The great irony is that the school is in one of the safest neighborhoods in Detroit. It is on Canyon St. just one block from Grosse Pointe -- an area that is commonly known as "Copper Canyon" for all of the police officers and firefighters who live there. They live there because they have to live in the City, and it is on the very edge of the City next to an affluent suburb. When I met my wife, I was living just over a mile west of the school (on Yorkshire Rd. in the area known as "East English Village"), and she was living just a few blocks south of the school on Ashley St.
The school mentioned in the article is Marquette Elementary on Detroit northeast side. The great irony is that the school is in one of the safest neighborhoods in Detroit. It is on Canyon St. just one block from Grosse Pointe -- an area that is commonly known as "Copper Canyon" for all of the police officers and firefighters who live there. They live there because they have to live in the City, and it is on the very edge of the City next to an affluent suburb. When I met my wife, I was living just over a mile west of the school (on Yorkshire Rd. in the area known as "East English Village"), and she was living just a few blocks south of the school on Ashley St.