Doorstep pizza deliveries, a convenience suburbanites take for granted, is a rarity for Detroiters at night. George Hunter tells why in The Detroit News:
In a city with the second-highest violent crime rate in the nation, pizza drivers say they're easy targets. . . .
Tony Ventura, manager of Jet's Pizza in Dearborn, is among the restaurateurs who have decided it's not worth the risk to deliver in Detroit at night. . . .
"It's just too dangerous," said Ventura, whose restaurant had three employees robbed in recent months. Two drivers were robbed at gunpoint; another was assaulted with a baseball bat. . . . "Nobody wants to deliver in Detroit at night."
Hunter also speaks with a Lincoln Park shop owner and three Detroiters with experience on the front line, including one who tells the veteran police beat reporter:
"I wouldn't do that job again in a million years. It just got too crazy."
