FBI joins hunt for Possible Serial Rapist in AA
I hope everyone takes some extra saftey around town. Females please don't travel alone, gentelmen please offer to walk with female friends. Let's hope this person is found and put to justice quickly.
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I thought he was already! Somebody was snooping around at State and Hill, and the red bandana looked familiar....
I remember in 2009 I had a friend stay at my place for a few days (he went to SCAD). When walking around at night he said something akin to, "Man, I can't believe all these girls walk around alone at night. It must be super safe here." To which my response was, "Well, yeah." I'm sad to see this stuff going on.
Later in the summer of 2009 some silly amount of robberies occured around the area I was living. I'm fairly sure a few of them were armed robberies, but I can't say for sure.
Either way, that summer I made damn sure I didn't walk around alone late at night. Fortunately, I lived like a block from the Jug, etc. So it wasn't much of a concern if I went out and came home late.
Either way, am I the only one who's noticed a rise in crime over the last ~8 years in AA?
Crime has definately gone up in A2 in the past few years, especially in that Oakland neighborhood. Same goes for the homeless, but I doubt these are connected. Seems that crime from neighboring towns is finally spilling over into town.
It definitely has. Part of the problem is that AAPD's only real skill is parking enforcement.
To this day is amazes me AAPD doesn't have a few young female officers on staff that look like college kids. Dress them in plain clothes, have then "drunkenly" wander down dark alleys and have the SWAT team trail along a few blocks back. Instead AAPD dresses up old guys in Michigan gear and tries to infiltrate them into our college parties. Had a guy who was freaking balding try to slip through the door and he pulled an AAPD badge when we stopped him. Too bad for him those of us on door duty were all over 21.
also doesn't help that the city of Ann Arbor has been laying off officers lately.
Dude, how'd you get -86000 points?
The details of my life are quite inconsequential
I was watching that about 3 hours ago...how relevant.
They still couldn't patrol every inch of the city. As CRex said, if they laid off their ticket writing/parking enforcement officers, they'd have more than enough money to keep officers to investigate, like crime and stuff. But finding rapists doesn't make the city money for it's next boondoggle. The fact that we have to call in the FBI for a rapist means maybe we should lay everyone else off too, since they can't handle basic crime that doesn't involve MiP.
There is not enough money in law enforcement to have your swat team on patrol on random nights. Also, there probably aren't enough girls going missing to warrant that.
I live in Bloomington, Indiana, and just recently a girl went missing. (Lauren Spierer) She (allegedly) wasn't abducted, although foul play is absolutely suspected. Its a tragic thing to happen, but the reality is having a SWAT team rolling around in a truck all night is not going to prevent much crime.
Also, when is the last time you saw a young hot female cop in AA, or anywhere for that matter?
Also, when is the last time you saw a young hot female cop in AA, or anywhere for that matter?TV
The city of ann arbor will be spending 850k for a fountain in front of the new Taj ma- , er, city hall, while laying off firefighters and cops.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/13219
You can't just move money around and put it in whatever budget you want it, that's what got us 14 trillion dollars in debt. You can only spend the money you have budgeted to law enforcement on law enforcement.
Give the taxpayers their money back for stupid things like fountains, artwork, and ANOTHER parking structure, so we can vote yes to tax increases for things like police, fire, snow removal, and all the stuff we want the city to do rather than all the junk they want to do.
I think fountains, artwork, and especially parking structures are what bring character to a town. /s
In all seriousness, I think that the police should be out spending more time writing traffic tickets. It's easy money for the state, and it gets filtered back into the department. Police departments should be like a buisness, and the police officers are like the salemen, sorta.
Lets hope he is found and a bullet is put in his head.
You know, this may or may not be related, but I just saw a article that talked about how Ann Arbor has become the Homeless capital of Michigan. Apparently they found that since Ann Arbor is so kind to its homeless that many found ways to move there. At least that's what the article claimed.
Regardless, if this is true, it may be part of what's causing Ann Arbor to become more filled with crime, though this isn't exactly a direct translation of course
Keep in mind this is mostly an overt generalization:
There's a decent amount of money in Ann Arbor (whether it be students or townies). I'd guess it's easier to make a (homeless) living in Ann Arbor than most any other city in the state.
For those of you who know Ronnie, he has a god damn cell phone and still panhandles.
Saw a homeless dude chilling on a stoop in Manhattan reading the news on an iPad this morning
Circle takes the square.
It is pretty close actually. The Delonis Center on Huron Ave. is one of the best homeless centers in the state of michigan. There was an article published by AnnArbor.com a couple years ago with quotes from Detroi officers who would bus over homeless people to Ann Arbor they don't wan to deal with or because Ann Arbor's resources are much better. There are also several tent cities that have spouted up in the past couple years. There is one tent city behind Arborland and one in Bird Hills Park.
.....when there was one at the I-94 and State Street interchange? I was driving past it to a meeting the same day the MSP were kicking everyone off of MDOT's land there.
I've been in and around Ann Arbor for the past 10 years or so and my girlfriend and I were just talking about how the homeless population is getting more aggressive. Apparently one followed her to her car asking for money when she left work a couple days ago (for like 3-4 blocks). I told her she should have called the cops.
Whenever I see a homeless person, I give them a $5 gift card to Zingerman's. I'm always like "Ha-ha, now you can buy 1/30th of a sandwich!"
I'm going to hell.
I think it has much more to do with the median income of the city (and really, Washtenaw County for the most part). Why would you hang out in a place where nobody could afford to give you a buck here and there?
THANK YOU! I have been saying this all day to anyone who would listen. The dude on the left looks exactly like Colt McCoy. Did Colt get bored during the lockout?
Seriously, though, the resemblance to the sketch is shocking.
i see it, although colt has a little less forehead. the sketch actually looks like the most generic college aged student ever though, which doesnt really help much.
i see it, although colt has a little less forehead. the sketch actually looks like the most generic college aged student ever though, which doesnt really help much.
Ann Arbor certainly seems to attract its share of serial killers. While I lived there, I can remember three, starting with John Norman Collins, another one who never got caught, at least for those crimes, and another who didn't seem to be all that bright and got caught early. So, this would be the fourth including Collins.
One of the most important things we did back then at work and school was to never allow women to walk to their cars alone at night, no matter how much they protested or how "silly" they thought it was. We simply never gave them the option of saying no.
My point here is that it doesn't matter how things have changed, and that I hope guys are doing the same thing now. One murder is too many, and one more is too many more. You may not save anyone's life, and if you do you will probably never know. But you just might.
Rape is not murder.
Watched a Rose Bowl here once.
John Norman Collins was from Ypsilanti. I believe 2 of his victims were Michigan students. The rest were Eastern students and a couple Ypsilanti residents. And he IS in jail for those killings. My mom's cousin was a UM Law School student in 68 when this was going on.
Listen this isn't really that much crime. This is clearly a bad situation but it just proves shit can happen anywhere as long as there is one person, guys should never really let a girl walk home alone late at night, I don't care if there hasn't been an incident in like 10 years its still a stupid idea.
describe what late at night is? one of the attacks was at 10:00 PM. i'll make sure i'm never alone after 9! or wear skirts above my knees!
i'm not saying people shouldn't be cautious when they go out, but clearly these events are upsetting to the community because people usually would feel safe walking down a popular, well light street somewhat late at night. i have before and didn't feel threatened at all. people now feel threatened and no one should feel threatened where they live. it changes the way people usually live their life and no one wants that.
Its late night when its dark, and the one at 10 happened in front of community high school which I can tell you has no lights and is pitch black at night the second the sun goes down, so yes I wouldn't recommend walking their alone after the sun goes down. I am not trying to say this isn't a bad situation it clearly is, I just don't think this should be altering people's behavior to things they should already have been doing, I'm not blaming the women for being harassed its clearly not their fault but that doesn't mean there aren't measure people should be taking to be safe either. Maybe its cause I am from a city but I can tell you six sexual harrasments never changed the way people lived there lives and we all lived happy lives.
It's all pretty shocking, especially with the locations of the crimes. When this happens around Greenwood, Oakland, etc at 3AM it doesn't shock me quite as much as 11PM at State and HIll. That's insane.
To those talking about crime getting worse... maybe. It's always worse during the summer than during the school year though.
There was a serial rapist in Ann Arbor in the early 1990s too.
Very sad and also frightening. Good luck to the AAPD and FBI in catching this ***hole quickly.