A Neighborhood Challenge for Bedrock/Dan Gilbert?

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What I mentioned are very real actions that residents have been choosing to do to maintain their neighborhoods at their personal expense. Which is already more than should be asked or expected.

Blaming residents is absurd. Residents didn't mechanize the jobs away. Residents didn't build the highways that sucked the money out of the city. Residents didn't destroy DPS. Residents didn't engineer the foreclosure crisis.

These are policy failures and it is the job of the policy makers to control crime, provide decent public schooling and services at a reasonable cost, not residents. Those are the things that would stop the exodus and, with luck, reverse it.

Yes you can blame residents. If jobs aren't available, it's the job of the resident to get better training or not make it more difficult on themselves by procreating when that can't afford to feed the children they bring into the world. You can blame residents for not instilling into their children the importance of education so that when they go to DPS schools they're not the students causing chaos in the classrooms and hallways, thereby forcing parents with means [[middle class families) to seek better opportunities elsewhere [[suburban school districts, private and/or charter schools). Also, you can blame residents for committing crimes. How many crimes are committed in Detroit simply because someone was trying to get some food to eat? Criminals want to take the shortcut to living the good life because they don't want to work hard or failed to get the adequate education that they need [[work hard in school) to not be criminals.

Also, how much can the policy makers do to control crime when a given percentage of residents are willing to commit crimes? Sure times are tough but most residents in Detroit don't choose to commit crimes. In addition, remember freeways were built by policy makers but it was the residents that chose to leave the city.