Road rage in Detroit

Road rage comes to an end in Warrendale - Photo by Frank Nemecek

Fair warning, people. If you get into a case of road rage on the streets of the Warrendale neighborhood, the Detroit Police Department will arrest your dumb ass and impound your car.

I know this will happen because one particular road rage came to an end in front of my house this past Saturday evening. The police were quick to respond and, after a thorough investigation by the officers, the offending driver was arrested. His car was also impounded.

In other news, looking at the photo from Saturday, it's also clear that I need to mow my lawn.

But that's another story altogether.

DTE launches residential energy efficiency program

DTE Energy has launched a residential energy efficiency program. It is designed to help many consumers across southeastern Michigan, including those in and around the Warrendale area, use energy more efficiently and save money on their utility bills.

The DTE program includes a FREE home energy consultation, FREE products like LED light bulbs, and insulation. There are also a series of other potential benefits that may be available for certain income qualified customers.

For additional details about this residential energy program, or to schedule an appointment for your free consultation with one of their representatives, please call DTE at (866) 796-0512. Consumers can also log onto dteenergy.com/hec. If one calls, please be sure to mention "home energy consultation plus."

A free residential energy consultation from DTE: your Warrendale Tip of the Week.

Guest commentary: Human trafficking (sex and labor)

Human trafficking - Photo by Imagens Evangélicas

Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control victims for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts or labor services against his/her will.

Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age, (22 USC § 7102). Sex trafficking has been found in a wide variety of venues within the sex industry, including residential brothels, escort services, fake massage businesses, strip clubs, and street prostitution.

Labor trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery, (22 USC § 7102). Labor trafficking has been found in diverse labor settings including, domestic work, small businesses, large farms, and factories.

Traffickers use violence, threats, blackmail, false promises, deception, manipulation, and debt bondage to trap vulnerable individuals in horrific situations.

For more information, please call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center: 1(888)373-7888.

Today's guest commentary comes to us from Ricardo Moore, who represents the Warrendale and surrounding neighborhoods on the Detroit Police Commission.