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WDIV's Kevin Dietz Goes 'Deep Undercover' Among Detroit's Homeless

September 18, 2014, 7:10 AM

An estimated 35,000 men, women and children live on the streets or temporary shelters in metro Detroit.

"To find out who they are, how they got there and if they have any hope of making it back, I went undercover. In disguise, I begged for money and I slept on the streets," Kevin Dietz writes on the website of WDIV-TV..

I found out that priorities at night are finding a place to sleep and making sure not to get mugged.

I tracked a homeless crew to a fenced-in parking lot, where several of them found a trolley for shelter. They told me they fake sleep so they are ready to pounce on anyone that tries to jump them.

“If you would have walked in that bus, you would have got stabbed. I was holding a knife and you would have been stabbed if you had walked through that door. Because that’s where I live."

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