This shooting is terrible. Understandably it may have the victim questioning whether he wants to stick around or not. His friends and family may have similar feelings.

Multiply that by thousands of violent crimes and burglaries every year, multiply that by decades and should we really wonder why so many have left the city and relatively few are moving back? Looking past the outright racism of the troll in this thread, and the thousands still like him [[yes, they exist) and one of Detroit's top problems remains that there are hundreds of thousands of people who suffered at the hands of violent criminals or with chronic property crime that seem endless.

There's a cloud of danger and lawlessness that hangs over Detroit and suppresses any upward momentum. All the original woodwork, independently-owned restaurants and cultural activities in the city won't convince most people to put themselves and their families at risk, hence our current state of affairs.