This is 2010. Detroit’s a Mess.
The urban utopias envisioned by the world’s citizens in the throes of modernist idealism are dead. Even the most optimistic commentators agree Detroit stands as a constant, vivid reminder of the human condition in 2010. Despairing photographers, journalists, historians, tourists and scholars flood to Michigan gawking at the glorious decay. They snap pictures, take “samples”, shove microphones in resident’s faces and in some cases contribute to the city’s destruction. Bottom line: they don’t help.
Detroit has real needs. Perhaps the city needs a hero to step outside the law to protect innocent citizens from the scrappers, looters, drug dealers, gang members and addicts.
Enter James “Jack Rabbit” Jackson: defender of the weak and powerless. The Metro Times reports he’s waging a war to protect his neighborhood. His weapons include a shotgun, video cameras, verbal intimidation and a neighborhood crime watch. His enemies methods are subtle and slow, designed to force people from their homes. They poison dogs, train middle school kids for a life of crime, sell fire hydrants for scrap, loiter in public places and sell drugs.
A burglar wanders into this suburban neighborhood and police don’t respond, Jack the Rabbit does. Other neighborhoods aren’t so lucky.
