I mean there is still a lot of things to do in detroit, but ever time i go to a game or a show or even drive throught Detroit i feel unsafe and a little scared! Don't you think the people of MI showed do some thing! Or what!!???
2007-06-25 08:54:58 · 13 answers · asked by mandymoo2322 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Detroit
Yeah, they should do something. It needs to be cleaned up, heavy police patrol and surveillance everywhere. The ghettos should be bulldozed and decent housing erected. They have no 'quality of living' and so they act like animals and convicts. I don't know the right people to present this idea to but maybe
we could organize a protest. (probably get shot doing it)
2007-06-25 09:03:07 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The problem with Detroit is not the public, but the people who run the city. The police are the worst and they're lazy. I believe that it should be a requirement that policeman are not to be over weight. Then, you have the dysfunctional City Council that are disrespectful to the Mayor and can't get along with each other and some are not critical thinkers and thus should have never been elected. It should be required that everyone on City Council have a business degree. Then you have the Govenor that says she can't do anything about the discrimination that Detroiters are experiencing from insurance companies, and gas prices, and jobs. I believe she could if she wanted to, if she was truly trying to stamp out the divide in our state but money talks and everything else is just that. If I serve 20 years in prison, I have paid the price for my crime so then why can't I vote? Why can't I find a job without being asked about my past felonies? If you felt like I was not able to function like a citizen in society then why did you release me? There are too many issues that need to be addressed that people who were born rich can't begin to understand what a normal life in the day of a less fortunate family is. It doesn't take a degree for some issues that are just plain common sense. Detroit is unsafe because people are just trying to survive and they do whatever it takes to pay their bills, and feed their children, they're not robbing people for fun. I'm working 2 jobs and still can't make it because prices are going up and my pay isn't adjusting with it. Something needs to be done with everyones interest in mind, not just people who are comfortably able. Detroit is very safe, you're only a victim if you act like one.
2007-06-26 09:08:54 · answer #2 · answered by Neenah 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think that phade3, dlove & neenah are onto something. The people of Michigan have done something-they come out in droves for events like the Internation (Freedom) Festival. http://www.detroitriverdays.com/
I dont feel safe driving anywhere in any state or country!! I pray and then I dont worry about it-there is nothing else for me to do. People get killed/murdered in small towns, big cities, countries, villages, townships etc-at time a woman was allegedly killed by the plumber hired to work at her home. (clickondetroit.com / Johnson missing from her Macomb home) IMO people have a false sense of security thinking that safeness exist anywhere. Just live your life and dont worry about it!
i hope this helps
2007-06-26 13:00:25 · answer #3 · answered by msijg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was just downtown last Saturday and they were having something I think at Hart Plaza. It was packed and the traffic was horrible but I'll give it to Detroit they had police presence everywhere and there was no major disturbances. If you feel unsafe somewhere you need to pray. Anywhere can be dangerous.
2007-06-25 20:36:55 · answer #4 · answered by brinkmont 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's too big and unwieldy as it is! I say divide the city into many smaller separate cities. The city services and city as a whole are too big and terribly managed as they are. Breaking the city into smaller more manageable cities is the way to go. That way also the schools can be managed differently without having the stigma of Detroit schools - likewise for housing
2007-06-25 20:33:18 · answer #5 · answered by Constitutional Watchdog 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You have to find some of the nicer parts of Detroit. River walk, Greektown, take a ride on the People Mover. Lighten up. nobody is going to kill you unless you are a crackhead or whore in the wrong place at the wrong time. Go with several people.
2007-06-25 15:59:44 · answer #6 · answered by markredwing 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well Detroit is not unlike any other major city in that the powers that be completely abandoned the inner cities. After WW 2, America experienced a huge boost in its economic peak and with that came what would turn out to be good industrial jobs for people returning from wars and those who chose not to attend college. In those days and leading up to around the mid '70's, people were living decent lives and raising their families.
After the demise of those manufacturing jobs most notably in Detroit the auto industry, millions of people were left with hopelessness and abandonment and we haven't recovered from that yet. The auto industry jobs that were once a boom in Detroit have all but dried up given way to cheaper labor costs in mostly 3 world countries and our workers have been left downtrodden and penniless bcecuase of that.
When our economy switched from one of industrial means to one of information, millions of people were left out in the cold.
Most inner cities in America have deteriorated since the mid to late '60's up through the mid to late '70's.
Now we have cities filled with homeless people and beggars and there's nobody in our government trying to remedy the situation. When society excludes certain people from the daily humbug of life and providing for their families, the breakdown is bound to happen and have a rippling effect. People who can afford to move to what they perceive to be safer areas, are finding that those safe havens are now being inundated with those very people they're trying to get away from and eventually the bubble will bust and we will have chaos.
People who went to work for the auto industry, steel industry and other industrial companies during the boom '50's and '60's and retired 30 year later were lucky in that they got in and got out before 401k plans were born and before workers were being asked as we are today to finance our own retirement and healthcare benefits. People who got those jobs after the '60's are finding it more and more difficult to maintain a decent standard of living and we are paying a heavy price for that.
2007-06-25 16:15:07 · answer #7 · answered by Phade3 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
there is a 1 in 13,000 chance of being killed in detroit
2007-06-26 21:24:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you feel that afraid then stay home. I go to Detroit every Sunday and I never feel afraid of have had a problem.
2007-06-26 06:52:02 · answer #9 · answered by joyce 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think we need to kick the segregation in thetrash and get some cooperation in trying to bring jobs to the region and safety.
2007-06-25 17:51:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋