Most of Detroit is safe.
Over the last few weeks I have ridden my bike through large parts of Detroit both day and night. I never see anyone. There is nobody there.
It is a city sized for 2+ million people with about 500K living there.. if that. I don’t even believe the 500K number. I don’t see the people. The city is miles and miles of physical and spiritual emptiness.
If you go into the neighborhoods where a lot houses still stand, gangs control things. And near the all-night clubs, those areas are quite unsafe.
The new urban open-space areas where one or two houses survive on a block seem reasonably safe.
Detroit is a favored whipping boy around here but I personally think it has a much brighter future than a lot of cities that are currently in better shape. Granted they have a long way to go but they’re taking responsibility for their own protection and that’s a great start.
Strip the federal dollars away from Chicago and we’ll be smelling the smoke all the way to east Michigan inside a week.