{"id":45826,"date":"2014-07-17T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45826"},"modified":"2014-07-17T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:23:25","slug":"the-good-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45826","title":{"rendered":"The Good Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Police Chief James Craig attributes part of 37% drop in armed robbery to armed homeowners <\/a>making life a little too, er, “brisk” for the city’s thugs:<\/p>\n

Detroit has experienced 37 percent fewer robberies in 2014 than during the same period last year, 22 percent fewer break-ins of businesses and homes, and 30 percent fewer carjackings. Craig attributed the drop to better police work and criminals being reluctant to prey on citizens who may be carrying guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cCriminals are getting the message that good Detroiters are armed and will use that weapon,\u201d said Craig, who has repeatedly said he believes armed citizens deter crime. \u201cI don\u2019t want to take away from the good work our investigators are doing, but I think part of the drop in crime, and robberies in particular, is because criminals are thinking twice that citizens could be armed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say what specific percentage is caused by this, but there\u2019s no question in my mind it has had an effect,\u201d Craig said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even more notably?\u00a0 It’s been two months since the last major home-defense incident, the last of a flurry of such incidents in which criminals scampered away from law-abiding homeowners who engaged them.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the criminals got hurt.\u00a0 Other times, merely humiliated – sometimes on camera:<\/p>\n