There's so few cops in Detroit that unless you have a major emergency, no one will answer your call. So crime is pretty rampant. I went to a bar in Detroit not long to see Rodriguez--you know--Sugarman, the guy whose records were huge in South Africa and he never even knew it and they all thought he was dead but someone realized he was living in Detroit. Well, he still lives here, I can't see him moving anywhere else. But, anyway. I went to see Rodriguez perform and people are just sitting there smoking pot and the parking lot is jammed with people passing joints around. No cops, no worries and the bar owners say nothing because it wouldn't do any good and at least they have business. Pot is legal in Detroit anyway but only for personal in the home not in public places but people smoke it openly everywhere now because there are no cops. It's kind of cool because Detroit could become another San Francisco in the 60s--a counterculture area. I would think that would be the probable outcome because somebody has to move into all those deserted houses.
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