It seems that certain areas of Michigan have much more gun violence than other areas despite not having greater gun ownership per capita. What do the areas of Michigan that have high gun violence have in common? Are there demographic similarities?
Personally, I'm not sure. What do you think they are?
South eastern Michigan is the area where there is more gun violence, hence last years big budget for the State Police to train and get more trooper on the road. Sadly, most of the troopers will be put into service in SE Michigan.
Us poor schmucks who live up north have to be content/safe with one deputy on patrol during the day, and two cars on at night. There are certain hours where my county has no deputies on the road at all! We depend on the Staties to cover for us...but since the reorganization (gutting Northern Michigan posts) that coverage is sporatic. (Sorry for the bad spelling, I spent a long day putting bad guys in jail..woo hooo, I love my job!).
According to a recent study, our county had one murder last year. True. Time from crime to ride to the prison less than a year. Our county is busy, but we get the drunks, the druggies and the occasional overdose. Oh, the murder was with a long gun.
So, yeah, the crime is downstate. I don’t have time to search and see how much gun violence is done with “off the books” guns. I bet I could drive to Flint this weekend, and in one day, buy a pistol offa some guy for under $100.00. He’ll take the money and buy drugs. In my county, it’s pretty much sex for drugs...we don’t have prostitution anymore, we just have lots of drug busts.
I won’t presume to know the demographics, but my guess is low income, state funded bad guys (”hey, got an EBT card? I’ll sell ya a gun”). I assume you are thinking about race. I also assume that much of the gun-related violence is done by races other than white, but I am basing that assumption on the racial make-up downstate. Remember, I’m just assuming. (up here, we use our guns to A. wow ourselves at the range and B. hunt animals and eat them.)
It’s called Detroit, it’s called Flint. All Democrat strong-holds, Union too....
“Are there demographic similarities?”
Conyer voters...