Posted on 01/31/2013 10:45:55 AM PST by EveningStar
Some major American cities are dying, and the worst part is that these grievously ill patients often are refusing to take even the mildest medicine that would make things better.
Take Detroit, a city that has become a synonym for urban failure. The murder rate of one per 1,719 people last year was more than eleven times the rate in New York City. One contributing factor may be that two-thirds of Detroit’s streetlights are broken.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Probably too many attempts to view it because it’s hot-linked. Just another step taken by a website to cut down on bandwidth usage.
It’s a picture of what looks like a typical residential street, except it’s covered in garbage and old tires. The street is crumbling from years of neglect, the vegetation is way overgrown. As the original poster of the picture says, a pretty typical picture of Detroit.
Cripplecreek says it’s getting better, and I believe him. It *has* to be. I haven’t seen it in many a year.
I get a broken link.
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