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| View Poll Results: What is the Worst thing about Detroit? | |||
| Crime |
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87 | 45.55% |
| Decay |
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66 | 34.55% |
| Roads |
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14 | 7.33% |
| People (rudeness) |
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24 | 12.57% |
| Voters: 191. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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If not, being analytical(from a distance) about Detroit and experiencing (living in) Detroit are two different things. |
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I work at a large hospital in Detroit and it seems to me things are getting worse. Instead of the daily GSW patients we see, we are having multiple victims. The assaults are more severe and people are scared. I work with many people that live in the city they tell me that the last 4 or 5 years people are desperate. Lots of people have lost good paying manufacturing jobs and these people can't find work. I can say the crime wave has affected me personally someone stole my car at work. I was pissed, but a car can be replaced. Race is a problem not only in the city but in the surrounding burbs. Take a ride down a major road called Gratiot. Start from the city and make your way out toward 8 mile road. As you're on this trip look around at the people and the neighborhood it's amazing to see the difference. It is what it is. We don't live together. It's been like this as long as I can remember. All I can tell you is what I've seen. People may not like it but that's life. Detroit is tough city I think you know that, just use common sense out there.
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So you haven't/don't live(d) in Detroit?
If not, being analytical(from a distance) about Detroit and experiencing (living in) Detroit are two different things. I live in Port Huron and frequent Detroit - as well as know others who live there. I am looking to move into Royal Oak. This would be my 4th move. To respond to your comment - I am not being analytical of Detroit - I am being analytical of people and their responses to cities. |
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i recently watched a documentary about how the detroit police are starting to experiment with manning their police force with robots. this documentary also suggested a new detriot free of crime is going to be built in the near future called new detriot. this documentary was apparently made in the late 80's so by now these programs should be running.
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Eminem is from a trailer park WARREN, Michigan not Detroit.
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I'm a WSU alum and lived on campus in university owned apartments for a number of years and I LOVED IT!! To the young man considering a move to Detroit, put Wayne State on your list for a campus tour. You will be impressed with the unversity and the surrounding area (museum district). This area is about 5 miles north of downtown.
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Detroit may not be the murder capital, but it's one of the top on the list. It's a very dangerous, poor, ghetto of a city for the most part. |
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So you are saying that its okay to dog the Black uneducated,unemployment, and I can't address how I feel or what I see concerning Black & White issues? Listen, since you are determine to make Detroit bad answer this...Why do you and the rest that hate Detroit offer a solution to solving the issue instead of badmouthing Detroit? Regardless to if it is ONE of the top its not the top. According to the National Crime Watch Network Oakland County cities crime rate is higher then Detroit. So my closing statement since many of you who once lived here in Detroit has moved. Can you admit that you left Detroit because (1): Blacks begin to move in your neighborhood?, and (2): You feel that your own dislike might start confusion so you moved? I do not think that this post is projecting racism, but its seeking a answer that should have been answered long ago, and believe me Detroit is my home...and nobody will run me out of Detroit. |
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1. Yes, my family left Detroit because blacks moved in, which is perfectly acceptable. People move out of neighborhoods for a variety of reasons. If you don't like the people that start moving in then it's time to start moving out. That is the number one reason that just about everyone I know that left Detroit did so. Blacks moved in. And it's not just that blacks moved in because if they did and they were hard working people that took care of their homes and helped keep the neighborhood safe it wouldn't be an issue. But that's not the case. With them they bring crime, low expectations, low education, unruly kids, drugs, etc. 2. I don't understand your question. There was no confusion. Sure, nobody will run you out of Detroit. Because you are black! Again it's a race issue. Blacks don't generally run blacks out of a neighborhood. If you left because you were living around blacks I would think it's strange. People like to be around their own kind. That's just the way it is. |
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