Bus safety in Detroit question

[mtburb]

As my main car has been slowly falling apart from all those bumpy, cracked roads we unfortunately have too many of for a long while and is now undriveable again [[and even when it works, it can't handle heading too far), I suddenly realized something I never thought about the previous times in which my car was undriveable.

I have suddenly decided to take the SMART bus more often. Now there's this question...I know the 125 doesn't go downtown outside of the peak times, so in case I do have to go that way...how safe is it to travel on the bus within the city of Detroit and in other torn-up areas like Ecorse? I know this ain't the 70's and 80's any more, but I don't wanna transfer from the 125 to DDOT at Outer Drive and end up confronting a bunch of hoodlums who want to punch me, steal all my savings, even take my life.