Democrat controlled cities create economic black holes that suck all the wealth of the city and state. Detroit is the poster child of this but Chicago is going that way and all of California is headed that way. They pay sweetheart pensions and a massive school teachers unions.
All true but there is no doing without cities, which, by the way, have always been problematic especially wrt crime.
You have the Best and the Worst in cities but the greatest economic are there. It is unfortunate that the Demons subsidize the Worst, buying votes.
Cities of the past have been far more violent than today’s when you needed an armed guard to go out at night. Dickens put a spotlight on this problem.