Detroit Tops Most Dangerous Cities List

Detroit Residents Ask: "Can We Get a Break? Isn't Everybody in a Rut?"

Even with all the new additions to the city; there still hasn't been anything to pull us out of the rut we're in. The crime rate in Detroit is steadily rising, and you should ask why? Especially if we have all these new opportunities for employment, such as the newly opened MGM Grand Casino, then why are we still committing crimes? Well, I'll tell you why.

Before I go into the 'why', I wish to share stats that are shown from the Detroit's Crime Data website,

Personally, I would like to express my opinions on 'why' it could be this way...not according to the stats that were accumulated, and tabulated more than two years ago, but what we see everyday!

It is indeed a true fact that lately there have been an uprising in crimes that are happening in Detroit, but it's not just the metro Detroit area alone; we're having reports of even more violent crimes happening on the outskirts of Detroit. Recently, there was a head found in one of the suburbs of Detroit. It's sad to say, but yeah, Detroit has violence just like the rest of the nation, but is it fair to place the crimes that are done in places like

Let's take a look at what Detroit as a whole and a representative of Michigan (as they are placing us) is going through. I would like to place this in a 'chain reaction-type form to give a better picture.

Okay, you have the new additions: the casinos...yeah, we have them and they are earmarked to bring more money into the city, but how is it possible to keep this as a good thing, when our residents are in there, losing their paychecks? Okay, so let's take for example: A man leaves work, goes to the casino, loses everything, and has no way of paying his bills; he loses the home he'd worked so hard for, and this may lead to him losing his family as well.