{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"U.S. Troops Are Needed More in Detroit Than Afghanistan","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article109500.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article109500.html'\u003EU.S. Troops Are Needed More in Detroit Than Afghanistan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe city of Detroit, Michigan is more dangerous than most areas of Afghanistan.  Drug gangs control whole neighborhoods and there are reportedly areas of the city where the local police refuse to go.  Last year there were 344 murders in Detroit and just in January 2012, there were 38 murders, a further dramatic increase.  The cause is an unemployment rate of up to 25% and financial woes, which have led to a reduction in the size of the Detroit Police Department from almost 5,000 officers to (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}