U.S. to crack down on Detroit's deadly 48205 ZIP code

[Hoosier Daddy]

Source: Detroit Free Press

The federal government has planted a bull's-eye on ZIP code 48205.

Calling it the deadliest ZIP code in Detroit, federal authorities announced a plan Thursday to zero in on that area for 30 days straight.

A team of federal, state and local authorities will specifically focus on gun crimes that occur in the heavily blighted area in the northeast part of the city; its boundaries include 8 Mile, Kelly and Hoover roads.

The idea, authorities say, is to prosecute more gun crimes in federal court, where defendants can get stiffer sentences than in state court, where sentences are often probation.

"We are reviewing every gun case for 30 days. ... We want criminals to know that there are very serious consequences to possessing firearms in Detroit," U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said Thursday in announcing the initiative, dubbed Project 48205.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20110930/NEWS01/109300372/...

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Zip codes don't kill people, people kill people.

[AngryAmish]

1. Just change the damn zip code

[treestar]

2. LOL!

[PassingFair]

3. Holy crap!

This is the zip code I lived in until I moved
to the 'burbs about 16 years ago. It is adjacent to the one in the article

snip>"In contrast, the nearby 48224 ZIP code, which includes the well-maintained East English Village neighborhood, had 27 homicides for that same time period. Both ZIP codes have about 44,000 residents."

A MERE 27 homicides in 2 years....I HATED to leave the city I was raised in, but I had small children and didn't feel it was safe for them in the neighborhood. Guess I was right, but I didn't think I was THAT right!

[JVS]

5. As someone who spent a lot of time in 48224 as a young kid, I have to wonder if...

if the Ford Freeway might not be more of a border between the two neighbohoods than Kelly Road. I could imagine the NW side of Ford Freeway being no different from the other side of Kelly Rd and the SE side of the highway being more similar to Grosse Pointe.

[PassingFair]

8. I grew up on Bishop, between Chandler Park & Linville...

The first house I bought was on Kensington, on the
OTHER SIDE....

A block from Dominican High.

I also lived in an apartment on Whittier just shy of Kelly.

I went to Carelton Elementary as a tadpole.

[JVS]

9. I was over near your apartment, near Denby.

I'd spend time at the relatives' during the summer. Fun place. Lots of kids to play with compared to my neighborhood back home.

[PassingFair]

11. I took driver's training at Denby.

The real tough neighborhood was over near City Airport.

[Michigan-Arizona]

14. City Airport area

Tough neighborhood it was, hubby worked at a chemical company next to city airport & he had a few stories to tell. The owner of the chemical company was & probably still is trying to buy up most of the land around his company.

[JVS]

4. When I was a kid, my relatives lived a few blocks on the other side of Kelly Rd.

I guess that's why we were only allowed to ride our bikes up and down the block but not around to the other side.

[PassingFair]

6. I had a boyfriend that lived on Glenwood off of State Fair....

That neighborhood was always "iffy".
I grew up off 7 mile, on Peerless, then
moved to "East English Village" when I
was 11...

I thought we'd hit the lotto or something!

[blueclown]

7. I would assume that this area is poverty-stricken.

Very few jobs, not much opportunity to better your life, etc. How about fixing that, first. The violence is a symptom of a huge societal problem, not the cause. Sending more police officers isn't going to solve anything.

[DeSwiss]

10. The Feds looking for a zip code with a lot of criminals in it?

- Here, try this one: 10005

K&R

[Demeter]

12. I grew up in 48228

Left in 1969

[bif]

13. I live a couple miles from there.

And I avoid the area like the plague.

[Festivito]

15. Oh, as long as they don't discover the problem stems from drug laws locked in place by federal laws.

After all, one would not want to figure that a poor blighted area with nothing to do other than sell drugs to the adjacent rich manicured lawn areas with more money than sense would have something to do with high crime and excessive use of guns by criminals that we will carefully not state as drug-connected criminals when writing a report such as this report about problems with that area.

Sarcasm to some, but not to all I guess.

[Duer 157099]

16. Wall Street is in Detroit?

I thought Wall Street had the deadliest zip code.

[pinto]

17. Locked.

Poster is no longer with us.