“Ann Arbor Police arrested four
“Ann Arbor Police arrested four men after a pizza delivery man was robbed at gunpoint early this morning,” The Ann Arbor News reports. Nice work, AAPD! But wait - read on, and you’ll notice that it was actually the U of M police who found the robbers’ car, which led to their capture. Not that most readers will find this story at all. The News, in keeping with their “If it bleeds, it gets buried in the ‘Police Beat’ column” policy, leads with a story about how there are four fewer students in the Ann Arbor Public School District this year than last year.
A letter in the Daily is less than impressed with the tactics of the party patrol: “In its vision statement, the Ann Arbor Police Department claims to adhere to the principles of trust and partnership with the community. If the police around here want to receive any respect at all from the students and restore some of the lost trust in authority, they need to listen to their own vision statement and figure out how to handle a campus of 30,000 students more constructively.”