Friday, November 9, 2007

More information on what the police are doing... We called the Detroit Police Department responsible for the area in question where Miracle & her siblings were set on fire. When we asked for the person who might be able to give us an answer as to what the police are doing, the woman on the phone told us to call animal control. When we politely said "no, we would like to find out how the investigation is going & what has been done to find the people who did this", the woman answered with "I'm gonna do this, call animal control. You all set" and then she hung up on us. While this was rude & unprofessional, we continued our search for answers to the Detroit Arson Division where we spoke to a captain who said that while it "wasn't a big thing" there was someone looking into it & that person was off today. We thought "big thing"? I guess to him, puppies lives' are worthless. We were pleased that he recognized that people that do this to animals, do this to people. But, still... how does that relate to his comment of not being a "big thing"? We did eventually speak to someone who was able to give us a little more information from the police department. We now know that the police only have one eye witness, a neighbor. This eye witness said that they were young black males. Which does not help since the police gave the statistic that 90% of Detroit are African American. They also said that they can only speculate at this time since there is no solid evidence & most people within the neighborhoods of Detroit do not want to help police nor do they want to offer any leads. If the community doesn't cooperate with the police, they have their hands tied.