Detroit's a big place and is different things to different people.

Here's a quote from an article unrelated to violent crime...

http://www.freep.com/article/2012012...text|FRONTPAGE
“Speaking anecdotally, I hope there are no unintended consequences of comporting with state law. Now we look and three years later, District 7 is 90% folk who are below the poverty line. I think that when you’re drawing lines … We are human and we want to make sure we’re doing the right thing.”
Is it possible that in the same city you have one district where 90% are below the poverty line and another area where 99% of people have some college coursework and 25% have graduate-level educations?

Yes. And our two experiences of Detroit are vastly worlds apart.