Detroit was once the home of American innovation and the automobile industry. Now? A wasteland of abandoned buildings and homes along with a high crime rate. What happened? See the chart above. Also, more stats, along with an amazing photo essay.
Between 1940 and 2000:
- Highland Park's white population decreased 98%, from 49,475 to 816
- Highland Park's black population increased 1111%, from to 1,292 to 15,647
- Highland Park's overall population decreased 303%, from 50,810 to 16,746
- Highland Park's criminal homicide rate increased from 3240%, from 2.0 to 66.8 per 100,000 residents annually
- Highland Park's robbery rate rose from 1848%, from 77 to 1500 per 100,000 residents annually.
For some brave souls there is the hobby/sport of urban exploration. One site features an exploration of Detroit municipal facilities that were abandoned. Amazingly, the cops left behind a trove of evidence, mug shots, tear gas, etc. Googling 'ruins+detroit' will yield plenty of sites where people have photographed the decaying infrastructure of a city where you can sometimes buy a home cheaper than a used car. I also recommend Detroitiscrap's blog. The black antis try to defend the crimes in the local news by talking about the size of their penises and using 'muthafucka' a lot. Funny site sometimes but mostly sad.
A series of stories on the changing racial makeup of Detroit mistakenly names jews as being White.
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