The Punching Bag

In his latest effort to try and justify the "stop and frisk" tactics of the NYPD, Bloomberg made some crack about how New York's murder rate would be like Detroit's if not for the controversial plan. I'm so tired of everyone from Bloomberg to my beloved Stephen Colbert using Detroit as an example of everything that's wrong in a major urban city. Detroit's problems are different from New York's and to compare the two places are like comparing apples to bananas. People need to stop using Detroit as their own personal punching bag. Really.