{"id":30421,"date":"2013-12-27T03:03:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T03:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30421"},"modified":"2013-12-27T03:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T03:04:46","slug":"postcards-from-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30421","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(by <strong>Adam Elkus<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another example is the Detroit Threat Management Center (TMC), a private security firm that provides a range of affordable public safety services, including car-to-front door escorts, security details, and neighborhood patrols. &#8220;I attribute the bankruptcy and all the economic issues to a lack of safety,&#8221; says TMC president Dale Brown. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t feel safe, why would you invest here?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From a very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/12\/24\/anarchy-in-detroit\"><em>Reason <\/em>story<\/a> on Detroit. Also: an autonomous island:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]hey pale in comparison to the scale and ambition of a project conceived by real estate developer Rod Lockwood. He has outlined plans to buy Belle Isle, a 982-acre public island park in the Detroit River, and transform it into an independent commonwealth with its own laws, regulations, and taxes (or lack thereof). Investors would buy the island from the city for $1 billion and then sell lifetime citizenship for $300,000. The extra $1 billion would help the city pay off its debts, and the lax regulations and low taxes would act as a magnet for investment, says Lockwood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not much to add, beyond a vague sense that we are seeing a stirring of <a href=\"http:\/\/analystone.com\/crowdsourced-militias-dread-bitcoin-pirates\/\">more to come in other parts of the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(by Adam Elkus) Another example is the Detroit Threat Management Center (TMC), a private security firm that provides a range of affordable public safety services, including car-to-front door escorts, security details, and neighborhood patrols. &#8220;I attribute the bankruptcy and all the economic issues to a lack of safety,&#8221; says TMC president Dale Brown. &#8220;If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,361],"tags":[1002,1242],"class_list":["post-30421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-america","tag-detroit","tag-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30423,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30421\/revisions\/30423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}