Meanwhile, Detroit has become the justifiable homicide capitol. Think I’d rather take my chances in Detroit.
Most of Detroit is safe.
Over the last few weeks I have ridden my bike through large parts of Detroit both day and night. I never see anyone. There is nobody there.
It is a city sized for 2+ million people with about 500K living there.. if that. I don’t even believe the 500K number. I don’t see the people. The city is miles and miles of physical and spiritual emptiness.
If you go into the neighborhoods where a lot houses still stand, gangs control things. And near the all-night clubs, those areas are quite unsafe.
The new urban open-space areas where one or two houses survive on a block seem reasonably safe.