U-M Professor: War on Crime Fueled Detroit's Decline

[Honky Tonk]

Thoughts?

http://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...line/92459474/

For the most part, academics attribute the city’s abandonment, poverty and decay to the disappearance of high-paying industrial jobs, white flight, discrimination in housing and employment, and government decisions that favored suburban development.
Thompson, though, argues that historians and others have missed an additional cause of Detroit’s unraveling: the rise since the mid-1960s of aggressive policing in black neighborhoods, along with laws that vastly increased prison sentences and the subsequent explosion of Michigan’s inmate population. That resulted in large numbers of people — mostly black males — yanked out of Detroit, orphaned children and collapsing neighborhoods..

Let me get this straight, all the white people "flew" out of the City in solidarity over the over policing in black neighborhoods? The black fathers also took off because of the over policing in black neighborhoods. Everyone took off because of the over policing in black neighborhoods. Coleman Young gets elected, puts an end to over policing in black neighborhoods, and the murder rate spikes to 714. Makes me wonder how the good professor is able to breathe with her head stuck up a tight cavity.