[Shadow44]

My brother-in-law comes from the suburbs of Detroit. He said that the ‘68 riot didn’t scare his grandparents off because they thought the tanks put the fear of God in people. It was the next riot several years later that they packed up and left.

[Slyfox]

My mom had two sisters and two brothers who moved to the suburbs in 1969. My mother stayed in Flint until after my dad died. We kept trying to get her to move because she could not go outside for a walk because of loose pit bulls. One day there was a knife brawl in front of her house involving about 20 mixed race kids and it scared her enough that she also moved to the burbs. That was about two years ago.

The dems don't seem to mind crime very much or else they would be as horrified as regular people.

[T.B. Yoits]

...the ‘68 riot didn’t scare his grandparents off because they thought the tanks put the fear of God in people. It was the next riot several years later that they packed up and left.

Once a city is marked as non-redemptive by the marketplace, there's no need to call in the National Guard to clear out the problem. It instead flips to "Escape from New York" where you encourage the mutants to stay in the city while the normal citizenry departs.

A recent news item describes New York State closing three prisons upstate and why not? The five boroughs of New York City are in effect a prison / psych ward and have been for decades.