Detroit appears to be attracting a moderate number of young highly skilled people who work, quite often, in the professions downtown or in the
medical centers near Midtown. Nevertheless, there is a widespread image that the is much crime in the city, that municipal services are deficient and that the public schools - with several exceptions - are not effective. Reducing crime would help but no one is very certain about why crime has fallen quite rapidly in New York and Washington but not in Chicago, Baltimore or Detroit.