Sunday, May 27, 2012

A lost city

53.6% of all children in the city of Detroit are living in poverty

The real unemployment rate exceeds 50%

47 percent of all people living in the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate

The median price of a home in Detroit is just $6000.

 In Detroit, about 40 percent of the streetlights are already broken and the city cannot afford to repair them. So Mayor Bing has come up with a plan to cut the number of operating streetlights almost in half and leave vast sections of the city totally in the dark at night.

Detroit announced that all police stations in the city will be closed to the public for 16 hours a day. Crime is exploding in Detroit and many families live in constant fear. Many have taken justice into their own hands. Justifiable homicide in Detroit rose by 79 percent during 2011. Murder is the number one industry, with drugs a close second.

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