Originally Posted by
A2Mike
As someone who was born and raised in Detroit, lived there for the first thirty-two years of my life, and then left for thirty-five years spent in Chicago and San Francisco, returning recently to retire in Ann Arbor, I have to note that the biggest surprise I found when I came back was not Detroit's crime [[that received endless national coverage), but the near exponential rise in suburban crime. Detroit's suburbs were thankfully dull in that regard in the 60s and 70s but are now seemingly awash in burglaries, carjackings, home invasions and homicides. What happenened when I was gone? I mean that which didn't get national media attention. Here in Ann Arbor things are pretty safe overall, with the exception of one well publicized murder case about two years ago and some criminal activity around south campus which perennially dogs the city.