The first thing I would do is move.
How can we draft this guy.
I’ve long maintained what Detroit needs is someone who will come in and be the best one term mayor this town has ever seen.
After the innaugural, Mayor Washington should immediately fire all city employees except police, fire and his staff. Then each week, another department will begin rehiring the few competent employees and filling the ranks with new employees who will actually work.
Then, go to work on teh Police and Fire Departments. Joe Arpeio would make a good chief.
Then, find the worst neighborhood in the city and move all the tenants out. Should be easy since very very few actually own the place they stay. Tear it down. Cap off the sewer and gas lines and tear them out, tear out the streets. If the land cannot be sold for development, lease it out as farmland and grow corn.
After that, move on to the next neighborhood and do it again. Eventually, developers will build apartments and homes that will be sold to former welfare rats who by this time will have gotten jobs and be able to afford a home.
You start with ‘broken window’ law enforcement.
That includes removal of corrupt city and county officials.
Once you get rid of the crime (read, the people committing the crime), the other problems take care of themselves.
I’m for the Tobacco Road doctrine: blow it up and start over again.