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Topic: The Dan Bowers story-I hate being a victim!
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

I was about five years ago, I went to the Human Relations office and tried to explain to them that we had a gang problem in my neighborhood and the sooner something was done, the easier it would be to resolve. But I was just the "nut case" that lives on Broadway Street.

That reminds me, just down about 200 feet from my front door is the off ramp from I-475. One day we had a really bad accident and child was pinned in the backseat so tight he couldn't breathe. They knew who i was when I called. Someone must have asked who the operator was talking to, she didn't even bother to cover the phone when she said "It's the nut case on Broadway Street."

It was about this time the owner of the building next door got mad because sometimes got mad because sometimes people who didn't live in his building put trash in his dumpster. I confess even I put trash in his dumpster occasionally, but my conscience didn't bother me at all because the dumpster in my parking lot behind my building. So the owner got rid of the dumpster.
Post Mon May 22, 2017 7:54 pm 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Anyway with the dumpster gone, the tenants started using my yard as a dumpster. They just took their trash out anytime of the week and piled it up on my parking lot. After a year or so of this, I was really tired of it. The dogs would spread it all over, and there got to be so much broken glass in my lot, that no one who came over wanted to park there. So I called city hall to see what could be done.

I was told several times it would be taken care of. Nothing changed. I called almost every business day to City hall, Sanitation, Human Services and Police.Seriously I called every day for five months until, finally, I got some response from the city. They issued me a ticket for rubbish in my yard.
I learned my lesson and didn't complain for over a year.

Then one day last year, I came out and found a steel bed frame and headboard leaning against my car, and piled so high in front of my car, it was on my hood. I saw them putting it there and I said (politely because the people next door tend to act a little "stressed out", "What would you do if I piled garbage on your car?". I was called a "whining white asshole". That was the last straw. I learned who owned the building and called to ask if he could stop them from putting trash on my property.
Post Tue May 23, 2017 3:14 pm 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

He spoke to me as if i were stupid, and told me that my parking lot by the road was public property and his tenants could put their trash there if he wanted them to.

That same week I was mowing my lawn and when I came to my parking lot I had to move a couple of bags over a few feet, off my grass so I could mow under them. (I must keep my grass mowed as the city is very conscientious about sending me these little green warning cards that my grass is too deep).

Next thing I know I have this x-con, gang member running out of the apartments screaming he's gonna kick my ass because I put the garbage in front of his car.

For four years I've had garbage piled in front of my car and I thought something was really wrong with me, because it really bothered me. And finally, here was someone who felt the same way I did. Another tenant that had come out with him kept him from assaulting me.
Post Tue May 23, 2017 3:28 pm 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Actually, when he threatened me, I told him "lets go". You see, I had my video camera gong in the window because of all the trouble I've had. The guy had sold drugs out in front of the parking lot all night for quite a while and I figured it would be worth a beating just to get him out of the neighborhood.

Back to City hall (April 98 ) with renewed determination. I've been promised at least half a dozen times tha it would be taken care of and it wouldn't happen again. But the only sign of anything being dne was in June when my car got orange tagged because it didn't have a license plate. You see the guy next door needed it-you know the one who threatened me-so he had stolen it.
So again, I saw what complaining got me.

Again, next garbage day, there in my parking lot was around twenty bags of garbage. Thee is a city ordinance that says if a building has more than five apartments, it is considered commercial and the city does not pick up commercial trash. Someone should tell the owner next door, after all he is (or was) the President of the Genesee landlords Association, and he should know this, if he doesn't already.
Post Tue May 23, 2017 3:45 pm 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

About four years ago, several months after my home was robbed for the second time, it happened again. My home was ransacked, and anything tha was worth anything was carted off. I didn't take it personal though, because it was happening all over the neighborhood. I did take it personally when my homeowners insurance was cancelled because of it. And again no one saw a thing, but this time I just didn't replace anything. I was getting tired of being the eastside K-mart for every crack addict that wanders by. I wonder if the police investigated me again.

I'm tired of being the victim.

It was late summer 3 years ago when one night around 9:00, I kept hearing noises in the vacant lot behind my home. When I went to see what was happening, I couldn't believe my eyes. There were 10 to 15 cars, and so many people I couldn't count them. Because by now I was pretty familiar with what was expected when I called 911, I tried to count them. County twenty-five or thirty and realizing that wasn't even half of them I called emergency.
Post Wed May 24, 2017 10:54 am 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

I told them we had a rumble occurring and needed help immediately. I told them I didn't know if they had guns, but i could see them hitting each other with boards and fists. I was spoken to with disregard and disrespect. I had three police scanners going, I heard no call for help. You see the dispatcher usually makes the call even if no patrol officer agrees to take it. Often the call will be dispatched but if no officer wants to take the call, it goes unanswered.

The police did come about an hour later because someone called for an ambulance. In these days emergency crews wouldn't enter my neighborhood until they have a police escort. So the ambulance sat out on the main road for about twenty minutes while the person needing it lay waiting about 200 feet away.

That was also the summer that I heard noise next door late one evening. So i looked out to see two females in their early twenties trying to get my neighbors car unlocked. I called 911. After about fifteen minutes, no cruiser dispatched. I yelled out my window, "Hey that's not your car!". They looked at me and casually walked down the street.
Post Wed May 24, 2017 11:12 am 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

About a half an hour later, I began hearing the same kind of noises. They were back again. I called emergency again, and again I received no response, so I went out back and chased them away myself. They didn't run, they just walked away.

One night that summer there was a gathering out back again while I was at work. These people had not just pulled their cars into my parking lot, bu also into my yard, which is fenced in. My wife called 911 and told them that strange people were congregating in our yard and using it as a urinal. The 911 told her that if she quit looking out the window there wouldn't be a problem now would there- again no response.

It's no wonder then when that summer I hollered at a man trying to break into my car that I had called the police, he actually laughed and said "so what" as he casually walked away.
Post Wed May 24, 2017 11:24 am 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Gangs of mostly minor children wandered into my neighborhood that summer . I watched them bend over street signs, and spray paint anything in sight. Twice, with my own eyes i saw them go through the neighborhood and set fires to the rubbish left at he side of the road. When they ran out of trash down by the river, they would go down Davison Road starting fires. This was in broad daylight.

I would call at 2 or 3 in the morning and tell 911 I had minor children wandering the streets. They claimed they weren't even aware we even had a curfew. I have never received a response to a call pertaining to curfew violations-EVER.

Three years ago-down by the river- a fifteen year old named Joseph Carpenter was murdered for tattling on some of the other kids in the neighborhood. My, how things have change since I was fifteen.
Post Wed May 24, 2017 11:41 am 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Three summers ago, thing in my neighborhood had quieted down some, because on Christmas Eve, a gang from Detroit had come up and shot up the house directly behind mine so badly that the mother and her seven children moved out on Christmas day. These boys called themselves the Latino 7 and they were attracting quite a bit of retaliation from rival gangs. With this faction gone, I actually thought things might go back to normal, whatever that is.

That summer on a warm Sunday, my neighbor's girls were sitting on a blanket in the shade, and I thought how wonderful it was that children could play outside again. An hour later as I was working at my kitchen window and making dinner, I heard this frightening screeching of tires. I looked up and out the window and in front of me i see a car back up across two lawns, through a crowd of people , up on the neighbors porch and into their living room. I could hear a woman screaming "My baby, My baby. What have they done to my baby?"
Post Wed May 24, 2017 11:57 am 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

They had crushed her beautiful 5 year old daughter into the cement steps. Then without missing a beat, the sped off down the street. This was NO accident.

The people who had done this were not charged with anything! Not failure to have their car under control. Not homicide. Not reckless driving. Not criminal intent. They were not even charged with hit and run.

In comparison, 3 weeks ago an off duty Michigan State Police Officer accidentally rear ended another car in I-75 just north of here and got 2 years probation. It would appear that children who live down by the river are worth less.

At this point I am going to skip two years, because it would be repeating myself like a bad dream that won't go away.
Post Wed May 24, 2017 12:08 pm 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

On July 11 this year, a 19 year old living next door was killed when he was mistaken for somebody else, mostly because he wore the wrong color clothes. Three gang mothers pulled up, jumped out of their car, and shot him in the head three times. He also was a gang member, but , other than that, he had done nothing more than walk down the street with the wrong colors on. Now his life is over.

And my next door neighbor is an older lady, who has lived here for decades, keeps her yard immaculate, and whose husband died last year. She now lives with an upside down cross, a monument put there by his gang members and friends. They congregate here and leave liquor bottles piled around the cross.

I have asked the police, sanitation, Human Relations and human Services at least seven times something. Thee people, kids mostly, stand on the corner and shout threats and obscenities at the woman who lives there and her home has become a prison.
Post Wed May 24, 2017 2:03 pm 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

If you still haven't gotten that the only rule in my neighborhood is anarchy, a hit was put out on a volunteer of the Flint police mini-station. This woman had been viciously raped by gang members as retaliation in the past. Then on Sunday, August 16, a member of the Mexican Mafia kidnapped her from her home and forced her to go to Kearsley Park, where he beat her with the intention of homicide. if people passing by had not intervened, there would be another cross, another grave, another grieving family.

This person was just a volunteer and her death sentence was receive for requesting more police presence in our neighborhood.

I am left wondering two things:
(1) When will people begin to blame her for her assault?
(2) Will this person get as much of a penalty when he is sentenced, as he would for beating a police dog?
Post Wed May 24, 2017 2:13 pm 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

I appeal to you. it is said that if you take care of the little things, the big things will take care of themselves. We have a whole generation of little ones in my neighborhood who have grown up in poverty and violence. We have streets in my neighborhood that don't have street lights. Not broken lights, but these streets have never had lights at all.

While the big things get "auto worlds", "air parks" and money to clean up big money's messes, we have a second generation growing up in the dark down by the river.

If we want businesses to come back to downtown, we had better make what we have left a safe and desirable place to live and work. It's time to let the big things take care of themselves and for us to start taking care of the little ones.

Things down by the river never seem to change. Our children have no safe places to play-anarchy and death rule. And just as it has been for the last 5 years, I had six of my neighbors put their trash in my parking lot last week.
Post Wed May 24, 2017 2:27 pm 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Dan was correct. People did blame her for the attack on her life. Her family said if she hadn't volunteered and hadn't led the crime watch, she wouldn't have been a target. They threw away her crime watch clothes and materials whenever they got a chance.

In the first crime watch location, she had to rush in early before the other volunteers to clean up the used condoms and trash the night cops had left behind. Two of the cops were competing for the same school teacher. But they turned against her.

Maybe it was the newspaper article featuring her. She knew the gangs so well she could predict their actions. Her Trans Am had a corvette engine and she knew how to drive it when the gangs tried to intercept her. She had a scared Journal reporter on that rainy night she took him out to patrol.
Post Wed May 24, 2017 2:38 pm 
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Her next door neighbor started hauling drugs for the gangs after her divorce. The woman's teen age daughter was turned into a prostitute. The woman was raped, tied up with a telephone cord and the house was set on fire.

The crime watch coordinator saw the front door was open and entered the home. Her neighbor was blind as a bat without her glasses but she identified a gang member by voice as one of her two rapists. He was convicted although he had witnesses he was at a party.

The Mexican mafia act as enforcers for other Spanish gangs. Rumors flew around the east side that this "hit" was not sanctioned by the hierarchy from Chicago. The Insane Spanish Cobra leaders were governed by the "king" in Chicago and two of the leaders in Flint were said to be related to him and the "king" in Detroit.
Post Wed May 24, 2017 2:49 pm 
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