By Joe DeMarco
EMSLA.org
DETROIT - Zeineh Quits.

The City’s employees, Paramedix, Firefighters, Cops, Mechanix, electricians, plumbers and everyone else are the only ones who take pride in their work and try against all odds to provide a quality service to the citizens and visitors of the city. They care because they and/or their family and friends are citizens and know that they would like to have quality service delivered to them.

It’s too bad that the people who care the most about the city, the workers who actually have to run the city against all odds and despite the best efforts of elected and appointed officials to destroy it, are also the ones who pay the highest price for their love of the city. They are overworked, underpaid, stressed out, burnt out and are used as scapegoats when city managements incompetence results in high profile bad publicity.

Unless you have worked for the city, you have no idea, can’t even imagine, the miserable horrific crap that employees have to deal with and the way they’re treated every day. When something goes wrong the employees always get blamed, management never takes responsibility for their mistakes, inaction or incompetence.

As a life long Detroiter and former city employee, I too love my city and hope and pray for a day when things get better. Unfortunately the way things are going, the horizon keeps getting darker and darker.
Zeineh did his best and fought the good fight against an ultimate evil machine. He’s lucky to have survived and lasted as long as he has risking his life and career in as high profile way as he has. He did WAY more than anyone would ever think to ask of him, without being asked, because he saw something terribly wrong and thought he could fix it, or die trying. He deserves the city’s equivalent of a congressional medal of honor for his valor in the face of destruction. Oh wait the city doesn’t have anything close to the equivalent of a congressional medal of honor because the city leadership doesn’t have any honor itself. Sad.

Zeineh made major personal sacrifices for this city and his EMS brothers and sisters, sacrifices that cost his home 3 times, and his wife. He should’ve quit a long time ago, but he’s too good for that and never wanted to let evil even think it had a chance to win. In the end he realized, no matter how mightily and valiantly he fought, the corrupt, ultimate evil machine was too great for him to conquer alone and too few fellow soldiers were willing to pick up the sword and fight along side him. To the contrary, some brothers even turned against him in this epic battle of good vs evil and Ultimately, He was overwhelmed.

God speed and best wishes for him in his new life outside of city employment.

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By CHARLIE LEDUFF
myFOXDetroit.com
DETROIT - It’s anarchy.

Now, as FOX 2’s Charlie LeDuff explians, the police are no longer responding to many emergency calls.
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By CHARLIE LEDUFF
myFOXDetroit.com
DETROIT - It’s anarchy.

• A 14-year-old blows his mother’s head off because she won’t let him go out with his friends.
• Two 15-year-old boys go on a carjacking spree and shoot-up a six year old in the back seat of a car.
• Two bodies are dumped in an alley on the southwest side. They are bound and gagged, their throats slit. The absence of law is so obvious, the perpetrator feels comfortable enough to light them on fire in public.
• Two women were kidnapped and thrown in the trunk of a car following a gun fight. They are still missing. The main suspect went to turn himself in at the Sixth Precinct and had to wait while the police unlocked the front door.
• An 86-year-old man was carjacked at a west side gas station in the middle of daylight. He was brutalized, his leg broken. As he crawled toward the door, people walked around him like he was so much garbage.
• The police - decimated by cutbacks — still have no one in custody, two weeks after a 9-month old was killed in a drive-up shooting. The gunman unloaded 37-rounds from an AK-47 assault rifle. The motive, it is believed, springs from an argument at a baby shower. Filling the police void to find the killer is a group of men, The Detroit 300, who working on a tip, marched a crowd up, down and through a neighborhood — shining lights in strange people’s windows.

Anarchy, according to Webster’s Dictionary: political disorder and violence. When the political mechanisms cease to move, society devolves into a war of all against all. Anarchy.
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