Detroit News poll: Crime drives Detroiters out; 40% expect to leave in 5 years

**bailey** · October-12-12, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by iheartthed

I didn't forget that Detroit is half the size, it's just irrelevant since I specifically said crime rate. Detroit's crime rate is significantly below what it was in the early 1990s... And the 1990s was the decade that Detroit lost the fewest amount of population of any decade between now and 1950.

ok...except you didn't say 90s you said 1970&80s and its relative "walk-ability" then.

I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Detroit's violent crime rate is far and away greater than anywhere else [[besides Flint..the current Champ). saying it is marginally less bad today than in earlier decades doesn't really resound with many folks.

**iheartthed** · October-12-12, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by bailey

I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Detroit's violent crime rate is far and away greater than anywhere else [[besides Flint..the current Champ). saying it is marginally less bad today than in earlier decades doesn't really resound with many folks.

Bham implied that walkability has something to do with the crime rate. I was pointing out that it doesn't. That's pretty much it.