Having been born in Detroit and encountering its slow and relentless slide into the shithole that it officially became during the riots in 1967 (yeah, I remember those happening though I grew up somewhat removed from that out in a blue-collar 'burb that didn't encounter the firebombings, the looting, the general mayhem) and never recovered from.
Jerry Cavanaugh, another white mayor of Detroit, started the graft and corruption on a grand scale in the early 1960s as white flight to the 'burbs was already in full bloom, but even his efforts paled in comparison to Coleman Young, whose outward racism was matched only by his profane mouth. Young raped the city during a very long tenure as mayor through the 1970s and into the 1980s before he finally orgasmed and let the city out of his clutches.
Charlie LeDuff has a great book out that delves into the detail about a city that is functionally dead. Police and fire departments are a shadow of their former selves and while there are some still that are dedicated, don't expect to see anybody show up after a 911 call for at least an hour. That's why many of the citizens are arming themselves and are taking rightful action when the squatters, crack hos, drug dealers, and other vermin show up.
I just don't believe that the city will ever come back--certainly not as long as the Dems are running things. As to what the scrunt is saying, that's just more DUmp material that has flies buzzing around it and is tapered slightly at the end.
