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Detroit, which declared bankruptcy last month and has debts estimated long-term more $18 billion, needs every penny that can be achieved. That a report to the lost city is why a check for $1 million in a desk drawer is not only an absurd example of bureaucratic inefficiency, but alarming.

Bloomberg News reports that payment of the routine of the Detroit public schools was lost in a drawer in the town hall for a month, last February.

Cable Atlantic points out that the biggest concern is not the $1 million, which is less than one percent of the annual budget of the city, but that is still receiving paper checks:

It is as if you, a person earning $50,000 a year, lost twenty dollars. You wish you had not lost twenty and was a stupidity that you did, but you're not going to go bankrupt because of this. ... In summary: It is as if you lost 20 dollar bills all the time because you never got to learn how to use the pockets.

Computer systems of the city for decades do not help at all. In Detroit, each Department uses its own system, and the information spreads even within some departments, as in the Police Department, where neighborhoods and districts "you cannot share information across their systems."

In a July report to show the depths of Detroit insolvency creditors, Manager of emergency Kevyn Orr noted that the losses of constant cash due to old operating systems. Administration of payroll costs $62 per cheque for a total of $19.2 million a year, compared with an average $18 per-check for the public sector.

"The city urgently needs to update or replace the following systems, among others: Payroll;" financial; development of the budget; information on the property and assessment; tax on income; and operating system DPD, "wrote.

Orr spokesman Bill Nowling told The Huffington Post that the city is working to improve the compilation and accounting.

"Our new Chief Financial Officer, Jim Bonsall, is working with his staff to new and most modern of all accounting procedures best business city so no problems arise as it lost control", said.

Bloomberg said other examples of operational failures and outdated systems, but not all: head-scratching inefficiencies plagued other departments where there is more at stake than dollars. On Thursday, newly appointed Chief of police James Craig called a press conference to highlight some of the frustrations with the way in which the Department had been led. He asked why more than 50 new cars sentaren unused in a warehouse while the funds are available to equip them as patrol, according to MLive. Meanwhile, a majority of the fleet of DPD has reached the age of replacement.

Craig also told the Department recently leaving a grant for the period that would have allowed them to buy an armored vehicle and how official juries had been working in administrative positions and mechanics.

Last month, the city emergency system fell for two hours, while dispatchers officers, firefighters and EMS technicians by phone, according to the reached Detroit News. The closure had delayed response to 17 priority calls one and more than 100 non-priority calls. Had never been tested backup system.

From obsolete computers broken systems, there are many things to fix before Detroit functions effectively and efficiently.

"Hopefully could invent these things", said Craig, according to MLive. "You can detect a little frustration in my voice, but again to... accountability, status quo, has no sense of urgency".

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On the rooftop of a seventeen-story building in the middle of a public housing complex in The Bronx, two fighters were battling it out. The roof has no railings, so anyone could easily have fallen off. Wearing only shorts and mixed martial arts gloves, they punched, grappled and kicked each other until one of them was beaten into submission and fell to the floor unconscious.

“That was the first rooftop fight I’ve ever seen,” said William H. Cavalli, an underground fighter, as he recounted the illegal bout that took place on a windy, wet day last February.

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