Driver who stopped to check on boy his truck hit is severely beaten by bystanders

[27 Mile]

Those kids that wouldn't let you drive thru are 4th or 5th generation Detroiters from damaged homes. Their distant ancestors were very likely former uneducated southern slaves and the 5th and 6th gen were a day late and a dollar short to the auto boom. They keep breeding and live on perpetual government assistance because making some babies and collecting a check is easy. You may save some of the kids here and there but never in the history of the country has a city so broken been saved. The region has over half a million people that are more or less helpless. Early childhood development is key. Majority of these kids are already damaged for life by primary school. Even if they're not completely past the point of being productive citizens, they are in school about 15% of their life, and you can't control the influences they're around the other 85% of the time. Unless you have a trillion dollars to spend, disrupting this cycle isn't realistic. Nor has this cycle on this scale ever been disrupted in the history of the country.