Charlie Langton: Hookers In Your Driveway??
Deadline Detroit writer Sandra Svoboda was taken aback after her husband was solicited by a prostitute in their suburban driveway. Are there different expectations of community standards in Detroit versus the suburbs? How would you feel if a hooker was looking for action at your home?
While driving to their Grosse Pointe home one evening, Svoboda's husband was followed by a hooker who had been hanging out in a nearby party store parking lot. As he got out of his car, she asked him if he had any change. She then asked him if he lived in the house. He knew what she really wanted and Sandra, inside the house, called the police.
Do people who live in the burbs have a right to tell Detroiters to keep their Detroit crime in Detroit? Svoboda believed that when they bought their house, they chose an area that was separated from Detroit crime, trash and even vomit. She joined Charlie to discuss these issues. Why are the neighborhoods around her house cleaner and typically safer and expected to be that way? Is it race? Culture? A few bad apples in Detroit making them all look bad? Why in Detroit would people expect to see hookers and blight but cross over a few miles and expectations change? Listen to the interview and decide how you feel.
