Detroit named most violent city in America

[pete-driver]

Why can't the people of Detroit be just like they're football team? The Detroit Lions never get violent or hurt anyone.

 

[marvin the martian]

Originally posted by gunsmith11:
ok detroit is the most violent, but austin is the most screwed up traffic wise

aah, obviously someone who has never driven in Michigan. Not only do we have the worst roads in the US, you can't make a left turn at an intersection! Some genius decided that we need to first make a right, drive a quarter mile, then make the left. By the time you get back to the original intersection you will have to wait for the red light again.

Pete - you beat me to it, I was going to ask if anything good ever came out of Detroit, Tigers - Nope, Lions - definitely not...

Think Canada will take them??

 

[bk43]

Had my choice between a S&W meeting in Detroit(Troy actually) and a knife show in Atlanta coming up shortly. Guess who's going to Blade 2009 in Atlanta.

Bob

 

[conn ak]

Originally posted by marine2541:
just what we need....someone to take more popshots at Detroit! I grew up in Detroit, and graduated from Denby High School. Our football team was either city or eastside champions of the PSL, and from our starting team in 1958, 08 won scholarships to major universities, one was all conference at Missouri, one All American at Michigan State, 3 started at MSU, one at Michigan, one at Arizonia State and 1 at Albion College. Of these men, two owned their own insurance companies, one was a high school principal, three are lawyers, one played for the chiefs in the superbowl and his son started at USC (Ed Budde - his son Brad Budde) and owns a beer distributorship in KC, two are doctors and I taught public school for 34 years. We got excellent educations in the public schools in the 1950's and 60's. It breaks my heart to see what has happened to a damn fine city. So, go ahead and take your shots! I'm damn proud to have grown up in Detroit, and I'd put my friends up agaist anyone, anywhere!

Oh, yah! Even our football coach was recruited and hired by Michigan State...Ed Rutherford. He was like a father to me, and I own him a debt I couldn't ever repay. He is the reason I went into teaching.

"...to have grown up in Detroit" I'll wager you don't live in Detroit now?

 

[GatorFarmer]

Originally posted by marine2541:
just what we need....someone to take more popshots at Detroit! I grew up in Detroit, and graduated from Denby High School. Our football team was either city or eastside champions of the PSL, and from our starting team in 1958, 08 won scholarships to major universities, one was all conference at Missouri, one All American at Michigan State, 3 started at MSU, one at Michigan, one at Arizonia State and 1 at Albion College. Of these men, two owned their own insurance companies, one was a high school principal, three are lawyers, one played for the chiefs in the superbowl and his son started at USC (Ed Budde - his son Brad Budde) and owns a beer distributorship in KC, two are doctors and I taught public school for 34 years. We got excellent educations in the public schools in the 1950's and 60's. It breaks my heart to see what has happened to a damn fine city. So, go ahead and take your shots! I'm damn proud to have grown up in Detroit, and I'd put my friends up agaist anyone, anywhere!

Oh, yah! Even our football coach was recruited and hired by Michigan State...Ed Rutherford. He was like a father to me, and I own him a debt I couldn't ever repay. He is the reason I went into teaching.

I'm actually from Michigan. My great grandmother lived in Detroit for a time, and my grandmother lived there during WW2, doing war work. My deceased great uncle stayed and drove a city bus until his death (heart attack) circa 68 or 69. He kept a shotgun on his bus during the riots.

The Detroit that exists today is pretty far removed from the Detroit of a half century past. It's a rough place. That doesn't mean that everyone who lives there is a bad person, or that people who come from there are necessarily criminals, but the numbers (which if anything are probably under reported) bear testimony to a city that has serious problems.

 

[Smitty500Mag]

Looks like our fine upstanding city politicians in Atlanta have been screwing with the books again. Several years ago Atlanta fell out of the #1 spot to #2 on the list only to discover that the people in charge of the records had been falsely reporting crimes to make it look less violent and once that was cleared up we went back to #1 for a while. Now we're not even in the top 5. Sure makes you wonder how that happened?

Maybe the police are really working and stamping out crime these days...that's hard to say with a straight face.

More likely they're just not catching anyone these days and don't want to 'cause it's a lot easier and safer to pull over speeding truckers.

Smitty

 

[flop-shank]

Originally posted by CAJUNLAWYER:
I was a bit upset that New Orleans wasn't in the top 5 but I did feel better when I saw that Baton Rouge was #10 and New Orleans was # 11
take THAT Michigan

I'll counterpunch by throwing Flint at you!!!

Detroit sucks! It's an imploding industrial wasteland. Great job UAW!!!!

 

[ladder13]

Where's NYC ranked?

 

[Hofstet]

Not to belabor the point, but Detroit and Flint are an embarressment to the rest of the state and the country. The western side of the lower peninsula is like a different state. The auto labor unions, teacher's unions, liberal dems in Lansing and uneducated voters have ruined Michigan. It will take generations to recover IMO.