With heads stuck at the government trough, some people will never get it

Detroit is broke. Detroit does not have enough police on patrol. Detroit has dilapidated houses.

Detroit also has neighborhood people doing neighborhood things.

"’When the system fails us, you have to become the system,’ said Mitch Logan, a 48-year-old film producer who is part of a self-dubbed ‘Mower Gang’ that mows neighborhood parks after they've finished their own yards.

“In addition to the landscaping, a church group is boarding up vacant houses in the Brightmoor neighborhood, one of the city's most distressed, to keep criminals out. And several neighborhoods are now hiring security to patrol their streets, supplementing an undermanned police department.”

http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/09/spontaneous-order-experiments-take-hold

Some people see DIY neighborhoods and private funding a threat.

"There are certain functions that you want government to perform that should not be at the whim of individuals or charities." -- Katherine McFate, Center for Effective Government.

Stuff it, McFate.

At http://ace.mu.nu/