What's not discussed about the destruction of Detroit is the part the Democrat Party with Coleman Young, the city unions, and Detroit teacher's union have played in its demise. As mayor, Coleman Young's 20-year stated policy was to “get whitey” and the whites that could voted with their feet and moved to the suburbs. Young surrounded himself with corrupt cronies and systematically looted this once great city. The brain dead black majorities applauded him and screamed for more! The city unions and Detroit teacher's union strangled the job market and the kid's educational prospects. Young began Detroit's death spiral as the city hemorrhaged people and jobs and its tax base; however, he did “get even” with whitey.
Mayor Bing has attempted to arrest the death spiral that Coleman Young started and corrupt mayors like Kwame Kilpatrick continued. He his merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The damage is done and cannot be repaired. The tax base is gone. The city can barely pay its bills. The city and Detroit teacher's unions continue to maintain and expand their stranglehold.
Isn't that the same (similar) story we have here in Philadelphia? So far Philly has not gone as dramatic as Detroit, but the downward spiral can not be repaired.
You live and work in the city, you take what they dish out to you. What you read about corruption/extortion in Philly, it's all true, and probably just scratched the surface, not the worst of it.