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The website Motor City Muckraker, which is on a crusade against graffiti in Detroit, reports that most of the Detroit cops aren't properly trained to issue tickets for the offense.
Steve Neavling of Muckraker writes:
There’s one problem with Detroit’s plan to crack down on the proliferation of graffiti: Most of its police officers aren’t trained to issue tickets to vandals.
A day after we revealed surveillance video of cops failing to take action against a graffiti vandal who was tagging an occupied building, the Detroit Police Department acknowledged most of its officers are not trained to enforce the city’s anti-blight ordinance. That task belongs to the department’s blight enforcement officers.
“The city has specific ordinance violations that are to be used” to enforce blight laws, Sgt. Michael Woody said Wednesday. “The officers that issue that specific blight ordinance need to be trained.”
