A tale of two women...

Its a tale of two cities as well, and the staggering differences between.

Deisy Garcia and her two daughters lived in NYC.  In the joyous melting pot that is NYC, she had no firearms.  The NYPD would keep her safe.  When her ex-husband got drunk and beat on her, she dutifully went down to the local NYPD station and files a report for domestic abuse.  Being accommodating as can be, they allow her to fill the form out in her native Spanish.  This report is dutifully filed away in the NYPD files and they do exactly nothing.  6 months later, we have a similar event, NYPD responds, the ex-husband is nowhere to be found and a report is filed with the responding officers.  The following day, Deisy takes a trip to the local precinct and files a follow up report, again in Spanish.  On January 18, her ex-husband was drinking.  He once again came home with ill intent, but this time he killed Deisy, and their two children, and then ran for the border.  We now come to find out that nobody in the NYPD bothered to have her reports translated, and thus never took action against her ex-husband.  She did everything right, according to people like Michael Bloomberg:  She reported the abuse to the police and she did not have a dangerous gun in the home for protection.  Yet still she is dead.

Now we transition to Detroit, a city in bankruptcy, a social fabric crumbling for decades.  Whole swaths of the city infrastructure has been abandoned by the local government.  A mother at home is faced with three criminals breaking down her back door.  She has two young children in the home and the criminals appear to be armed.  This woman chose to arm herself with the rifle given to her by her husband just two weeks prior.  When they made entry, she warned them that she was armed, to which they replied "nuh uhh..."  Her response was a round fired in their direction.  Video has them exiting quickly, one dropping his gun in his haste.  As opposed to NYC, three criminals have been arrested, the chief of police has stated that she did exactly the right thing and everyone is alive and safe.  And it appears that this is a trend in Detroit.

For once, it appears that it is better to live in Detroit than in NYC.