The problem with detroit is spelled out in this book

@Alien

The author of this book is just a *beep* racist who thinks that black people ruined Detroit, as if that was the only reason it's gone downhill. Read THE ORIGINS OF THE URBAN CRISIS:RACE AND INEQUALITY IN POSTWAR DETROIT by Thomas Sugrue, and DETROIT CITY IS THE PLACE TO BE:THE AFTERLIFE OF AN AMERICAN METROPOLIS by Mark Binelli, to start with.

Or in this book... "White Girl Bleed a Lot" (5th Edition): The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it.