Detroit Tops Forbes List Of The Most Dangerous Cities

Detroit tops Forbes list of the Most Dangerous Cities this year for the fifth year in a row. What is encouraging is the violent crime rate in the Motor City actually declined last year, despite crushing financial woes that drove Detroit into the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Crime affects the people of Detroit and the city’s reputation, employment, income and education. It should be stopped to make Detroit prosper and make the lives of the people living there better. Detroit had 316 murders in 2013, a rate of 45 per 100,000 people. That s the highest rate among cities with populations over 100,000. In 2013 Detroit also reported 14,504 violent crimes. That s also the highest per capita rate in the nation, according to the†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"I don’t want to say that you can forget about this generation or the generation before us, but if we’re going to solve the problem, we’ve got to get into the heads and the minds and the hearts of our young people, and it’s going to take all of us to do that.† The political leaders want to help the city and they need everyone’s help to do. One of the city’s issues that is not as extreme as murders and crimes are stray dogs roaming the streets. Stray dogs attacked fifty-nine Detroit postal workers in 2010, according to a Detroit postmaster. Another form of crime that Detroit has been facing Detroit is the many cases of arson each year on Devil s Night, the evening before Halloween. It is chiefly associated with the serious vandalism and arson seen in Detroit, Michigan from the 1970s to the 1990s. Devil s Night dates from as early as the 1930s. Traditionally, city youths engaged in a night of mischievous or petty criminal behavior, usually consisting of minor pranks or acts of mild vandalism (such as egging, leaving rotten vegetables or flaming bags of animal feces on front porch stoops, or toilet papering trees and shrubs) which caused little or no property damage. In the early 1970s, the vandalism escalated to more destructive acts such as arson. This primarily took place in the inner city, but surrounding subur bs were often affected as well. The crimes became more destructive in Detroit s inner-city