They need to really think outside the box with Detroit. But they won’t. They will push government intervention, in one way or another, as a “solution” to the past 50-60 years of government intervention.
If I had my way, I would eliminate almost all laws in Detroit. Pretty much anything goes. And, yes, I would include the laws that block citizens from dealing with “problem” citizens. I would like to see extremely lenient “punishment” meted out to people who engage in cleanup.
Most people are not too bad. The bad ones are typically easy to identify. Society doesn’t need them.
For any democrat the only answer to a crisis is “Government intervention” which translates to pissing away the taxes we pay...