After suffering stinging losses to St. Louis over the past couple of years, Detroit has regained its designation as most dangerous US city.
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Here I kind of thought about this a little cause I didn’t really get it. More generally, Detroit I think only had one shot and it missed its chance to blow. Which is not to say it doesn’t blow. I know. It’s confusing.
*whew*, that was a close one!
Well, at least things are back to normal.
I guess I got out just in time. Now, if only we could sell our house …
Yeah Detroit! Time to break out Bob Seger Live Bullet!
Nonsense! Detroit is a perfectly normal place to live, we’re no worse than anywhere else! Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go to work. I’m the door gunner on a beer truck.
I’m guessing this is what Jenny Granholm meant when she promised us we would get “blown away.”
But who’s #1 in chlamidia & syphillis? Huh?
Listen bitches,when you’re #1 in one of the burning crotch categories, maybe we’ll talk.
Clamidia? Seems more logical.
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Is there something wrong with trying to include a Google Maps link?
Yes, I think John. I’ve had a couple points this weekend where the site didn’t want to load. Not sure what’s up with that.
Oh – the spam filter is extremely particular is all I know.
Poor Philly. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
Yes. The blog hates Google. Tiny URL it, and it should post.
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Alter Road is the border between Grosse Pointe Park (on the right) and Detroit. Note that there are houses on almost every lot in GPP. Note the large open spaces in Detroit. Those aren’t friendly open neighborhood parks. They’re empty lots. The streets used to be just as packed with houses as Grosse Pointe, a million people and 40 years ago.
Link in #15 is meant to go with message in #16, if anyone’s reading this thread….
Kooky – NPR’s media bias show helpfully had one of those people from the article – the ones that are being “proactive” – on to debunk the report tonight. That is proactive cause usually the show is at least a week behind on topics. Why are Democrats so threatened by this report you think? I really don’t get it.
Even our good neighborhoods are jammed with killers.
John, that map shows (almost) where my dad lived (In GP) – I know that area very well. Trying googling Harvard and Warren and you’ll get a different look. Still Detroit, but a neighborhood with a bit more “control.”
And, if anyone wants to buy a house over there, lemmeknow.
-happyfeet
I think we all know why the democrats are threatened – Detroit is predominantly black, and this report supports the idea that blacks are more inherently criminal than whites. That’s what you meant, right?
Does it?
Why else are the libtards in an uproar about this report?
Democrats never miss an opportunity to pander to the blacks. I mean, why actually DO something to help the situation, when you can just pander.
Even more interesting, is why Detroiters (and black Detroiters especially) have been DENIED the opportunity to vote for Obama in the primary. They have been allowed one choice -Hillary, thanks to Michigan Democrats and Jenny I’m-gonna-get-a-job-in-Hillary’s-administration Granholm.
You’d think there would be even a smidgen of complaints about that, but I haven’t heard a peep.
I just don’t see how that could reasonably be extracted from such a report, at all costs. Likelier, it underscores the failures of the present political leadership.
And the present political leadership (in Detroit) is all-black and all-Democrat. Criticsm of Detroit is ALWAYS related to race. When an invester wants to build something in Detroit – it’s STILL about race. It almost always has to have some component of black ownership. So, the libtards are upset because criticism of Detroit (even in the form of bad stats), is inherently criticism of their policies.
I always say, Detroit is the ultimate result of liberal policies. Absent liberal elites – elites aren’t interested in living here – Detroit is what you get.
So Dan – you’re one of those people that think blacks commit more crimes because we haven’t given them enough affirmative action?
I doubt that is what Dan thinks. I lived (until very recently) in a mostly black neighborhood, and none of my neighbors were criminals.
My point – my neighborhood was made up of (mostly) married black families.
So — I wonder if there is any sort of relationship between intact black families and crime? You’d think there would be a study.
Why can’t a bunch of white people – and I’m talking really white, you know, Talking Heads-white, as opposed to Everybody Love Raymond-white – why can’t a bunch of Osmond-like people lock arms and sweep across Detroit, picking up the occasional styro coffee cup, and abc gum, and rake a few leaves, and unhook the hoses from the spigots (the nights are getting below freezing and the pipes are in danger of bursting)?
Wouldn’t that help?
On the contrary, I think the bulk of their problems stem from welfare and the victim mentality that’s been peddled to them like crack.
Moynihan wrote about this long ago. Then he gave his Senate seat to Hillary.
What I meant there is I don’t get it. Really.
They’ve put great stock in violence statistics of late. I recall a study in The Lancet in particular.
NPR’s not calling for skeptical look at these ones.
Not that I care too much, but Saint Louis ranking as one of the worst “crime cities” has always been a bit bogus since Saint Louis is a city and “county” in and of itself*. This has historically restricted the city limits to those of the 1870’s. So unlike other cities that can expand into the suburbs and pad their various “bad” statistics, Saint Louis is stuck being the ultimate “inner city”.
*Not to confuse Saint Louis county with Saint Louis city. Confusing huh?
So what happens to a large city when it dies?
Seriously. Does it just go back to the buffaloes?
I understand Buffalo is crapping out too.
There will be celebrations in the Baltimore Sun over this, I’m sure.
So glad I don’t read that toilet paper.
I only know Baltimore from The Wire. Not a PR coup, that.
So what happens to a large city when it dies?
I’ve suggested farming the empty spaces.
There’s a challenge flag on the field. My hometown wants another look at this.
I heard that Mitch Albom’s next book will be titled “The 5 people you meet in Heaven, after you have been murdered in Detroit”.