18: Stories from Flint, Michigan: Urban Blight, It’s Effects on Policing and Communities with Retired Sargent Bill Meyer

On today's show, we have special guest retired Sargent Bill Meyer, who was a Flint MI policeman for 30 years.  Today we discuss a number of topics, including: 

-lack of training for police 

-economy as it relates to crime

-even people who made good money would go buy dope on breaks

-how defunding the police will cause in increase in crime

-how he saw Flint MI deteriorate over time due to lack of funding economic downturn

-lack of business equals higher crime