When Entering DETROIT
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- My commentary on the many problems facing the city of Detroit and some tips on navigating through the city safely. I cover the bankruptcy, the high unemployment, broken streetlights, spray dogs, failure of basic services and some of the attractions.
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The irony that Robocop was surprisingly accurate.
Wait for 2050 Great Britain lol
When entering Detroit...find the quickest route out of town.
Which road, I-75, I-94 or US Route 12? Pick your poison my friend
you are a dumb bitch!
Both Detroit and Toledo are nowhere nearly as dangerous as troubled places like Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine. We keep putting down these two challenged industrial cities not realizing that there are places in this world that make both cities look like paradise in comparison.
EconCat88 good advice
I will never get that close.
50 years ago today: the last full day of that beautiful, old Detroit. RIP.
Meanwhile Popeyes Fried Chicken is reporting Detroit as it's highest profiting market.
Because nigga gotta eat and dey din lern cook chickn likn in they classroom.
right...when all else fails play the race card
Lying Press how is the shit getting in the hoods though?
When entering Detroit, use a Tank or a Bullet proof Humvee!
@Elisha Sage why so snoopy?
Instablaster...
I love it how our country is rotting from the inside out, yet we have all this money to piss away every time another country has some natural disaster. How about we save our money for when we need it for our people.
say that when your country has a natural disaster.
Americans have money?? Maybe some, but governments (state, and federal) are bankrupt and indebt up to its eyeballs. Remember Federal gov't shutdown a while back?
***** "Nobody sends the US money when they have a natural disaster..." --- That is not true.
PanzerFaustFurious You may be right but when the US is gone the Huns are coming for you.
Americans are descendants of White Huns.
I used to visit as a kid in the 80's when my Grandparents lived off of Penrod and Warren Ave and loved going. Its a shame now!
Dam Reginald, you called it correct. Here we are 7 years later.
Its a Disaster
We need ROBOCOP!
No tanks.
Your move creep.
CEO : Nice shootin' son, what's your name?
RoboCop: Murphy
Houston, TX, got crime, no joke. Older teens /young adult men scaling iron wrought fences and holding up nurses at gunpoint for their purse & car jacking . I was against guns, generally. Now, I see the need.
lived in Detroit all my life…i love it here but it hurts to see my ppl struggle like this…everytime i leave the house even to go pick up my daughter, i throw on my hat and tuck my Ruger
The Downtown area looks like another world compared to the residental..... Greektown looks quite vibrant
Because downtown is full of suburbanites!
What is the Greek heritage there ?
all those people don't live in detroit.
My family owns that entire Greek strip. All owned by 1 family lol!!
This video makes me want to volunteer to help kids after school with reading and math in Indianapolis (where I live).
I applaud you for exercising your Second Amendment right and arming yourself responsibly. Bravo. It is your right as an American to own a pistol and protect yourself. Death to thugs.
wyatt1153 totally agree
To each his own.
@@TheRoundtable_RTG Not created. They are a product of their own personal choices. Personal responsibility.
@@TheRoundtable_RTG Do you believe in personal responsibility ? Personal choices? You mean like Clarence Thomas who grew up in dirt poor conditions? Your Communist propaganda science? Predict that.
The first thing you need to be aware of is...just about NO ONE has auto insurance. If you're in an accident in detroit...good luck!
@johnny walker Maybe, but you put in a claim and your insurance goes up. In the end, you end up paying for it.
@johnny walker If you're not at fault the other persons insurance pays your tort fee.
@johnny walker You need to ask your insurance company what LIABILITY IS! In Michigan it is REQUIRED!
@johnny walker No you're not covered unless you have collision coverage. ALL vehicles in Michigan are to be insured!
I'm from Liverpool in UK, it's considered a pretty rough city. I can relate to what he's saying about carrying about that caution from one city to the next, I think exsposure to any risky environment can make a person that way. It's easy to say a city is in decline because of thugs stealing and vandalising, or blame it on corruption. But the reality probably is both. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm only going off films I've watched, but Detroit was a major manufacuring state until something happened? Just as here in Liverpool we were a major port city until we were no longer needed for that. High crime rates scare away the good investors instead go to different states. It's just a viscious cycle that won't change until it hits rock bottom. No amount of money pumped into a area with high crime will change that.
Detroit is a city in the state of Michigan. It declined in the 70s due to the riots in the late 60s. Everyone that could leave did and the others had to fight and hide. It’s never gotten better because of less cops and money. We had a corrupted mayor for awhile as well.
In all seriousness: why is it where ever masses of Black people are, poverty follows?
I think you answered your question about why there is poverty ;)
no correlation there most black people are upstanding law abiding citizens and have the most successful countries in the world .... is what i would say if it was opposite day
Eric Foreman name one please!
Same reason there's poor white communities..... dummy
Because the ones that congregate in democrap strongholds keep voting democrap.
As a Canadian who has been to Detroit and other major American cities, I get shocked about the amount of Poverty that exists in the U.S.A. HUGE contrasts in One city- you will have wealth and then very poor areas. Things like this do Not exist in Canada. I like the U.S because it is our southern neighbor, but honestly I think that America is a land of strange contrasts.
You have great observation my friend. Other Americans can't see or won't admit the injustices of how the money is moved. Shame.
Also Canadian, but when I visited Vancouver, I saw a lot of homeless people in the downtown area. I'm from Edmonton, where there still are homeless, but they're virtually all in this one area just past the downtown area near the EPCOR building, compared to Vancouver where they're scattered in huge groups.
+MA K I'm been trying to explain this to people for years. In my city of Chicago Illinois we're going to have 500 murders this year- which is almost as many as the entire country of Canada has each year.
America, "land of the free - home of the brave - greatest country in the world" is quickly becoming the myth that it is.
+Eric Perrault or anywhere in CANADA where they could win a STANLEY CUP AEH
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Very nice done! Like what you say and the street view. It's not an Detroit or American problem, it's a worldwide problem. Europe have big big money problems you know. Lot of German cities are nearly bankrupty. Greek is bankrupty, and so on.
You've clearly never been in Europe. Even though they might be bankrupt you have no need to fear for your life. It's still safe as fuck. From what I heard you need to carry a gun in America to feel safe, let alone in Detroit.
Joe Brett Man, you've absolutely right! ;o)
Europe cities have problems, yes. Is there rough areas in cities in Europe with unemployment, crime, drugs exc...yes. But that said, I never really see any Western European cities are ever as bad as some of the rougher USA inner cites. Yes you can say cities in Europe have rough parts of town. But they usually don't include vast areas that take up block after block of abandonedness of what use to be lively parts of town. Any Europe city i can think of and have been to myself has had a lovely, busy, well kept up city centers with densely populated areas, with lots of tourists, and lots to do at day and night. Yet there is quite a few cities in USA where downtown is falling apart, nothing more then a little strip here or little strip there of shops and restaurants, it just seems like they are clinging on, the only few street that attract any people to spend money and for tourists to visit, and you only need to walk around the corner to find ugly ass, abandon buildings and such, and often downtown's are ghost towns at night. Cities like Detroit, St.Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore, Buffalo and there is probably others that have lost a quarter, half and even more then half of what the population was 50 years ago. Cities like the ones I just named also have way, way, way higher murder rates then the cities in Europe. So I don't think Europe cities compare with the decaying old industrial cities of USA of today.
Joe Brett That's not what I implied at all
Another good thing about Detroit is the traffic is light. If you have to drive yourself to the hospital, it will be quick.
I'm from England and am fascinated by Detroit and what has happened to the City and its people. I thought your comments were really insightful and so true of the urban decline not just in America but in Europe as well. You should lobby the politicians about what to do to help bring life back into urban areas and yo: ur comments on corruption were spot on. Thank you for taking the time to film this.
I'm from Canada and this video made me very shocked because this level of poverty should not be in the United States and the scary part is I'm only four hours north of Detroit
my relatives from canada where down in the states visiting us which required them to drive through detroit at night after crossing the border. at some point they got lost and stopped on the side of the road to check a map. a cop car pulls up next to them and the cop asks them "are you crazy? never stop your car in detroit". he literally told them to ignore stop signs and red lights if there wasn't obvious oncoming traffic.
This not true! This story is told in every bad city! You better not run a ReD Light here! Don't believe that a cop told them that! For one, once you come from Canada into Detroit. You will be Downtown on Jefferson Ave. Go ahead and try to drive like a Mad Man 😀
Haha they just drove by my job. They're on the east side of Detroit. On Conner Ave. I work at the Chrysler Jefferson plant on Conner Ave. Regardless of what people say about the city, I love what Detroit has shaped me to be. I'm not the typical illiterate, bum, having a criminal record stereotype you hear coming from Detroit. But those who are born and raised in the city of Detroit know what it really to come from nothing and become something. I was born and raised in southwest Detroit and being from Detroit is basically having the fighting attitude to keep going and getting back up when you fall. In terms, I think that is what the city is doing, it's getting back up from a major downfall. I love my city regardless of what people say about it, I stay true to my roots and have no problem saying I am from Detroit. At 21, I've been through hard times but I keep pushing forward, I guess that's the Detroit attitude in me. #313
I work at Chrysler in Toledo..The JT or Gladiator for others, body shop. Buddy of mine from HS works at Jefferson as well..Ya know a Dan Hess? lol..I know there's alot of people, but it be funny if ya did..lol..He's a millwright..Have a good one
@@tonyedwards2064 haha nice man! I drove by the Toledo plant a few times! I have a vehicle you guys built actually lol (a JLU) but unfortunately I do not! It would be truly a tiny world! Lol
My friend retired from DetroitPD after 25 years and when the pension funds went bankrupt he ended up getting $100.00 per month as his "retirement". His live spun out of control eventually losing his family to death and then himself. It was so sad.
I was a Detroit city employee for 11 years and saw the writing on the wall. I gave up 11 years of retirement credit for the unknown. I ended up with a good job and retirement, and stayed 30 years. Nobody wanted to budge where I worked and no doubt most stayed. It sounds like they rode the Titanic all the way to the bottom. I can’t go back to visit my friends out of embarrassment and fear of what I will find.
I’ll soon be 74 and have seen the both the world and war. But nothing was sadder than the death of Detroit.
From what I see, your way out of poverty in Detroit - invest in a shop selling spray paint cans!
Rick Long what do you mean?
The similarities between a former great city of industry, culture and diversity and my beloved home state is more than eerily similar. But outside politicians coming to West Virginia to line their pockets with our future has always and continues to occur. Living in H'town WV and seeing the erosion of our entire existence is stone fucking sobering but not hopeless. This war on blue collar America being waged by Big Money using Big Government is killing the American Dream and that will not ever happen.
I make it up top a couple times a year.....Inkster, Dearborn heights, MLK etc. I might not be quite as diligent as our friend in the video but he's right on. A white-ass hillbilly might be a quick mark up there ordinarily but my buddies are real. I'm looked after up there like they are here in almost heaven. Like family..........
And that is how to defeat any enemy. My village has let me down before. That trust only goes so far. Certainly not far enough to EDUCATE OUR YOUTH!!!That is our only hope and the only way to pay for that is basically the Legalization of Drugs. Where I'm from, my people are going to get high. Why are we giving away the largest cash generator ever? And at the same time locking away non-violent people, not regulating at all an already dangerous practice.
YOU CANNOT SAVE PEOPLE FROM THEMSELVES.
But you can EDUCATE them.
MONTANI. SEMPER LIBERI
EnergeticWaves REALLY !!! DO YOU LIVE THERE !!!!
Look at the prison statistics. That explains it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is really cool and informative. I learned a lot, and you're a good and thoughtful narrator. Thank you.
I am Canadian and I grew up visiting and staying in Detroit (burbs) all my life. My uncle worked on the railroad in Detroit and was married to an American lady from WV. My aunt. I had two cousins that were my brother and myself's age so we spent a lot of time in Michigan. Detroit area; Dearborn Heights to be exact. But we often went into Detroit. It used to be a beautiful city, and even more beautiful around the time I was born in the early 60's. My Uncle used to tell me how it was a vibrant city and people were out shopping and eating, etc at all hours of the day and night. I watched the decline of Detroit as I grew up. Watched them implode beautiful buildings that were vacant like The Hudsons Building. I still have a lot of love for Detroit and believe it will rise again and become a great city all over again.
I know this video is old but I didn't feel like this when I went this past summer. I spent a week in and around Detroit. You can tell the city is slowly starting to grow. It's a very hipster city right now. I also went into the more ghetto areas (not at night) and I didn't feel like I was in a bad area.
It's definitely making a comeback. A lot of gentrification though. Detroit needs a lot of work but they're making progress
I"m from Detroit and the reason Detroit has faced all this is because of the Unions and Democrats. Democrats refused to move away from the auto manufacture sector and build four to eight job sectors for the city to diversify the economy. Now back to the Unions, they drove the manufacture jobs out of the city by holding the wages hostage. If you want to screw in a bolt at $30 an hour, then pay your local neighborhood kid to cut your grass or shovel the snow at $30 an hour!. Oh wait you wont cause you will complain that wage is absurd for that kind of work.
When entering Detroit make sure you have one in the pipe and fresh magazines ready.
Detroit is really not that fucken bad please ppl let it go!
littlerock arkansas is THAT BAD, i wouldnt go to detroit with less than a co. of marines
Any city in the USA can be dangerous. It's my opinion that some of the wealthier areas can pose some greater risks.
yumi mango how did you come up with that?
Charles Murphy There are people who get home invasions and even murdered if they display their wealth.This happens in very wealthy areas. Criminals can be selective.
The roads in Detroit don't look that bad, the core infrastructure is relatively in tact. Some of it looks a bit dated but for the most part its fairly well maintained. This city is just begging to be revitalized.
You'll have to go for your self
Dustin Noonan It will bounce back.
The electrical grid is decrepit and looks like it dates to the early 1900s. It needs total replacement. Where is the infrastructure well maintained. Most roads have areas of pavement delamination and potholes. The streetlights are rusted, mismatched and some look like they are ready to topple over. The only things that appear well maintained are all the pavement markings, big deal. Detroit is not going to bounce back as easily as you are leading yourself to believe.
R. Preskop if you think these roads are bad come to canada where annual fixing is required due to freeze thaw extremes. I never said it was going to be easy but anything is possible.be optimistic.
I have been to Canada, their roads are far better than they are here in the US in spite of your harsh, frigid winters. The heavily travelled QEW from Fort Erie to Toronto makes the New York Thruway look like a poorly maintained cow path in comparison.
Bring some asault rifles and enough ammo.
Alex K. When I lived in Detroit and traveled in the city I carried one AR or riot gun for every adult in my vehicle, plus a spare. Same with handguns. Also carried 50-60 magazines of AR ammunition and other assorted ammunition by the ammo can. My wife had a loaded 9mm pistol in the diaper bag for our infant son. This was post 1967. There was one solution to living in Detroit - Leave. And a hell of a lot of working people did. What you see now is the residue of a productive American metropolis. It is a wasteland with a cheering section telling you it is coming back. Yes, perhaps it is. There is so much vacant land within the city limits Detroit could revert to an agricultural Mecca by the river.
Detroit was a beautiful city/the first part of the century/to live & work/I was born there in 1945/lived there many years/things started getting bad w/ Colman Young/worse later/
I miss it/God bless!
Colman Young was the only mayor that took care of the citizens.
I was born there in Southwest Detroit in 1960 lived there until 1997. It was a beautiful city in the 60sand 70s Coleman Young was the mayor for over 35 years he drained the city and let people ruin it ! In the 90s he was warned that gangs were heading that way and did nothing to stop them or control them and they finished it off I moved out of there in 97 because of it . I loved living there until the mid 80s when it started going to 💩
Well done - lots of good information - appreciate your persepctive!
I'm from Miami FL and I'm with you on this, great work. Thanx
*I love how the citizens of detroit blame everyone but themselves. It's always the 'man' keeping them down, never their low ambitions, morality and bad example. Never their home violence, abuse and lack of education. Never their praise of 'thug life' and single parent families.*
Great video. So sad and you're totally right it's not just a Detroit problem , it's an American problem!
No, it's a cultural problem. Something is wrong with black culture and lack of values. Fatherless homes and the breakdown of the family destroy society. Most other ethnic groups do not live like this. They may be poor but have dignity, don't trash their properties and lead lives of crime and violence.
No wrong! It's an economic problem!! If you don't have the available jobs then how are you going to feed & support your family as well as keep a roof over your head? And this is not just happening in Detroit, by the way...
Lazy nuggas are to blame. Corruption and laziness.
I blame white ppl. This is all they fault.
TheMabes69 you are right
It is really sad to see all those once nice houses deteriorate .
amber lopez what are you?
What I think is awesome is no matter how much the people of the city is having a rough time getting by, they are still very proud of Detroit and represent it's strength. You see the Detroit "D" logo everywhere still, like there was an SUV (Jeep?) in the video that had a Detroit decal on the back that passed by, you see people wearing Detroit jerseys, etc. It's amazing. They are proud, amd still stand tall for Detroit. Rise up, Detroit. Hopefully soon the jobs will come back?
A tip from somebody who lives near Detroit. Best way to stay safe is don't be a stranger. Act like you usually would. Don't roll up your windows or act paranoid.
Looks like an economic boom for the fried chicken joints.
+evad wall Funny!!!
and fuk face black folks don't really even eat watermelon speaking I. the mind set of a black person u turn
Fuck fat fuck rocky balboa smile having ass up
Eat the bird,carry the word.
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This is one of the best videos on youtube
This makes me glad i live in Cleveland. We actually got our stuff together!
Videos like these are why I love this channel. Thanks
Its not a black or white thing it a Detroit thing people need more jobs, and business need to be open to create more jobs so money can be generating through out the city when you go to Houston, Atlanta, or and other major city you see jobs and type of establishment to create some type money
Amen yes it is a Detroit thing get this place more jobs the more jobs they have the more money to rebuild Detroit
I have to agree with you.. I was born and raised in Detroit, I remember when you could walk up to the employment office at the Ford Rouge plant and get a job... I remember when mothers didn't work outside the home... and I've seen the decline... it's a damned shame, but what has happened to Detroit is the future of America... I had hoped I wouldnt live long enough to see America fall.. now, Im not so sure...
come on up to canada, all the benefits of the us, without the poverty.
+Lou Peora Those days were probably sounding wonderful, but they were also only like that because the rest of the world was still recovering from the war. Germany didn't produce freely till 1957 and Japan also took 20 years to get going and much of Europe, bar the UK spent billions to rebuild an industrial factor.
With increased competition the wages went down and the general poor quality of American plants made the domestic plants inferior to foreign plants in the 1970s when the Japanese and Germans started moving in strong. You can look up the Nummi plant/project/case for reference on the Japanese/US car manufactoring situation in 1984. The Japanese also implemented the quality control of a modern world with Lean methods and all that, which today is paramount everywhere in efficient production.
The increased competition from a worldwide "return to normal" plus the automation revolution after the war also neccessitated that women went into the labor force.
But I can sympathsize with your historical views; My granddad never had an education, he was a sailor and then an electrician and still made enough on his own to own first a house in a nice suburb and then a nice house in a less good suburb (in Europe) from 1948-1989 or so. My dad had a great earning career but never could afford the same standard of house in the same type of suburb and thats with a mom that worked fulltime as a dentist. Today I have yet to live in a house (thats worth buying) despite working in a STEM field. To live in a house my granddad use to live in as a sailor with a non-earning wife and 2 kids, I'd have to cough up about $1M today. The house would be infinitely more modern inside ofc, but we are talking the same land lot and the same bricks and mortar.
My granddad on the otherside bought a farm in 1954 from savings after 14 years of on-off savings as a wartime farmer with sandy lands (so from starving to bad income) and still paid 66% of the farm in cash. He borrowed the 1/3 from his dad-in-law and paid it back by 1958 in the good times in the 1950s and was debt free by then to invest in more buildings. By 1967 he had lung disease from pig farming but my grandparents had enough to retire at age 53 and 47 from active farming and just did light land farming after that for hobby sales out the back door till they died. Couldn't happen today, farmers here either go big or go broke, has to focus on one thing only like pigs or land or dairy. Beef farming is small around here.
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You know what you are talking about in this video! You seem like a well-educated man with smarts and common sense. I have a weird fascination with urban decline in places like Gary, Detroit, Flint, etc. and this video displays that along with your oh-so true explanations for why Detroit is the way it is. Great video!
it's not called an amalance. It's ambulance
Am ba lance
Wow
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Tripnotyst ok bitch
It is in detroit ...am ba lance! Just like sail foams! aka cell phones! You must be pretty ignorant to urban linguistics!
As an Englishman, I find the concept of not leaving the house without a handgun to be somewhat......fucked, shall we say?
Not really my thing.
Karsen Crow Because over here we (largely) don't live like law-less animals.
Karsen Crow Right, 'cause your gun laws work incredibly well lol
i still like Detroit, the auto industry, Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Pistons etc... and the opportunities that America offers to those who want to work
After watching a bunch of Detroit videos, I'm convinced there's never a sunny day over there
What you should know when entering Detroit.... Don't enter Detroit drive around that whole mess os a city. Believe me me it just better to go around that place. Kind of like how you would step around a pile of dog shit.
car on the left around the 1:00 mark don't even got a plate license lol
Everybody knows license plates are for pussies lol
*****
In Downtown Detroit, the cops don't care if you have no drivers licence. The "Road Mile" system starts downtown. Seven Mile Road is seven miles north of downtown. Eight Mile Road is eight miles north, and so on. The rapper Eminem really did live near Eight Mile Road - he was at 19946 Dresden Street between 7 Mile Road and 8 Mile Road. That's deep into car-jacking and heavy drug territory - it's very blighted. Eminem now lives out near 28 Mile Road near a golf course and country club. 8 Mile Road really is the true divider - inside 8 Mile Road is unsafe. Outside 8 Mile (9 Mile Road, 10 Mile Road, etc) is safe.
Also, Five Mile is Grinnel and Six Mile is McNichols.
Robert W I have a friend who lives in Detroit and he said Eminem never lived on 8 mile...
Shady Paul, that's right - Eminem did NOT live on 8 Mile Road. I don't recall saying he did. He lived at 19946 Dresden Street, which is between 7 Mile Road and 8 Mile Road. It's a rough and dangerous neighborhood. In my opinion 6 Mile Road (six miles from downtown) and 7 Mile Road (seven miles from Downtown) are far more dangerous areas than 8 Mile Road. Stick to Downtown and Corktown (they're joined together along Michigan Avenue) and you're safe.
Detroit’s suburbs are very nice. I liked living in Troy when I was there in 2015-2016.
damn Detroit has definitely changed since I left 10 years ago, but will always have the Detroit love!
LOL at all these racial and political comments. The auto industry was the reason for Detroit ever getting to where it was. Without GM, Ford, and Chrysler, Detroit would've never gotten any bigger than Toledo or Peoria. When the horse in a one-horse show dies, the show's over. Lots of cities have weathered white flight. Lots of cities have weathered the shutting down of factories. What fucked Detroit (and a few others, like Gary) was an over-reliance on one thing, and the dumb assumption that that one thing would last forever. Ghetto culture and idiotic management are just icing on the cake.
hey genius......Ford GM and Chrysler are still in Detroit and still employs half the damn city. Detroit isnt even close to "one horse town Gary Ind."
Auto manufacturing was gonna leave the US regardless of what they could have reasonably done. America just turned out to not be the best country out there so the manufacturer moved to better countries, and they did amazing there.
then why is the main ford plant derilict, in ruins. it would cost millions to even try to repair,, there arent enough people in the city to repair and work those buildings,, ford has given up and moved , so its not all ford gm and chrysler left, what choise did they have.?
MrPreacher8770 i dont know what youre talking about but the Main Ford Plant has never left it's original location in Dearborn Mich, neither has the headquarters.
Even if they wanted to bring industry back into Detroit, would there be a pool of skilled and educated workers to staff them?
greektown is the only place you can feel safe. and its funny, where the city makes the most money, they place the most police....
People are getting robbed and murdered in greek town too!
I like seeing all those American UAW-built cars on the road. Every U.S. city should be like this. If you are an American, show some pride in your country and buy these cars, even if you buy used!
Im from detroit and honestly agree with you about everything, beautiful city, major issues
Detroit's quaint downtown is no offset to the rest of the vast, depopulated, impoverished city. The day-to-day culture of the entire region is terminally ill due to 50 years of increasing poverty, safety-net dependancy, insurance and property tax redlining, delusional politics, racism and reinforced negativity. . When I left I went through about three years of culture shock. My old neighborhood (7 and Woodward) looks like people left a month ago. Houses are still intact for the most part but they are wide open and everything is overgrown. Used to be a thriving Iraqi community in the 90s.
People on the outside have no idea of the scale of the decay.
An excellent and insightful video. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
That was a really interesting clip. I'm English, was in Detroit back in 93 it was mess then, I hope they get it together and sort Detroit out. You sound like a really really nice guy.
By June of 2015, all street lights on East Warren Avenue, Conner Street, and Mack Avenue are new LED lights, after you did traveled on these streets.
For the right-wing racist baggers, as well as the poster, who seems to be a sycophant for the right-wing, implying that "Black" people caused Detroit's collapse, I challenge him to explain how these "white" mayors didn't wreck Detroit long before the first "Black" mayor was elected.
Detroit’s decline began in the 1950s, during which the city lost almost a tenth of its population. Powerful historical forces buffeted Detroit’s doomed-to-failure single-industry economy, and Detroit’s federally supported comeback strategies did little to help. The hallmark of declining cities is that they have more buildings and infrastructure than they need. Yet in the 1960s, under Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, Detroit used public money for urban renewal, building new structures that weren’t necessary, and neglecting necessary maintenance.
But let us go back far before then, when Detroit's doom was actually sealed.
Charles E. Bowles, backed by the Ku Klux Klan, was in office for seven months in 1930 before people demanded his removal. His ascension to the mayor's office was followed by a spike in crime, and he was suspected to be linked to some of Detroit's underworld figures, according to “Detroit: A Biography" by Scott Martelle. "The stories of gangland feuds and killings were diversions from the deeper agony that spread across Detroit in the 1930s," Mr. Martelle wrote. "Unemployment was high and deep poverty endemic."
Frank Murphy was a judge of Detroit's Recorder's Court when he resigned to run for mayor after 1930 Mayor Charles Bowles was recalled for mishandling of jobless problems.
Republican Richard W. Reading (1938-40), dubbed "double dip Dick" over allegations of taking payoffs from gamblers beyond his salary, went to the slammer when later found guilty of bribery, conspiracy, and income tax evasion.
Edward Jeffries, who served as mayor from 1940 to 1948, developed the Detroit Plan, which involved razing 100 blighted acres and preparing the land for redevelopment. The area sat vacant for several years, and the 7,000 black residents who were displaced moved to neighboring areas where whites, in turn, left. Rather than ending blight, the project simply redistributed it.
Albert Cobo was considered a candidate of the wealthy and of the white during his tenure from 1950 to 1957. He declined federal money for housing projects and facilitated the construction of freeways. Highways were being built across the country that encouraged suburbanization, but while the rest of the nation was expanding, Detroit's population was shrinking as people used the newly built roadways to leave.
Conviction on tax evasion also sent 1958-62 Mayor Louis C. Miriani to prison after leaving office. (It was tax evasion that finally nabbed famed gangster Al Capone, who had summer pad roots in northern Michigan and Wisconsin).
Now, back to reality. Blacks make no commitment to their women, to their offspring, to their car loan nor even to their dog. They will obtain a pup, spend time with it, and then leave it with their aging mother or grandmother, girlfriend or just on the streets. Black men absolutely refuse to grow up, they cling to adolescence. Regardless of your mayor or the past; your life begins with self respect and accepting responsibilities. You will never move forward if you continue to look behind. Black women more than white women, asian, south american or any other ethnicity/race are the least likely to ever get a marriage proposal. They become aggressive, loud and arrogant, this is their culture.
"Escape from Detroit"... the 3rd movie in the series, starring Kurt Russell. Coming to a theater near you.
This is what happens when you put your lives in the hands of the Democratic Party.
Lets not forget making something can include music. Detroit is world famous for a lot of the best music ever made. I traveled to Detroit to see Hitsville alone. Worth ever single minute of travel. Detroit was a nice city with good people having a tough time.
Funny, I used to say you can get shot mowing your lawn in Detroit and you said you have your gun on while mowing the lawn. Excellent video...one of the best. I am viewing this in 2021 so some things have changed a bit.
Do more videos like this, Reggie!
there's 'armored glass' at the Little Caesars by my house in Flint, we're not much better
Flint and Detroit BOTH chased out the industry, and are now rotting slums. We need to thank them for biting the hand that fed us all.
I was more scared of flint than Detroit when I went there...
danthehitman741 Geez, I heard about how they'd have orgies in some houses, they'd start by covering the windows and then lots of cars and visitors would show up....
wow from what I saw I guess every 3rd house has a orgy every night...sorry you have to live somewhere that you have to look over your shoulder every minute of everyday..
danthehitman741 I mean they'd cover the windows and then invite them over, then uncover them when everyone was gone. I heard it from people who moved OUT of Flint, and there was other bad stuff that was a lot worse.
Great video. Thanks for showing us how detroit is symbolic of what can happen to America as a whole.
detroit is what happens when librul democRats rule!
Great report. Had me glued even though I was tired and wanted to go to bed.
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popeyes seems not to care about poverty. looks like their doing just fine
lmao
Lmao they are thriving lol
Chicken is not that great either
It's a city that sets an example for the rest of the country. if u become welfare ran this can happen to you.
The entire state of California is a liberal shit hole. Next dry season, I say, let it burn.
Its not welfare, stop being stupid. Its the total loss of manufacturing by moron meddling thieve politicians.
@@greytallcloud5695 52% of detroiters don't have a job and aren't even looking for one! They must all be filthy rich HuH!
@@bradz123456 the Republicans are missing 6.3 trillion dollars. Totally unaccounted for. Do you know how much money that is? There are no jobs in Detroit. U just don't get it. Detroit when in it's hey day was a manufacturing city and was wealthy and attracted slot of workers. When the manufacturing was sent overseas for the rich to get richer by saving money by children workers and sweatshops these jobs up and disappeared. It wasn't like this before. Even 50 billion dollars of that 6.5 mission trillion would turn Detroit around and create jobs for average people. Your head is up your ass. It's not a welfare state. It wasn't like this anywhere in the country when we manufactured our own goods. Big business got greedier and caused this and in doing so made China a superpower. Your mentality is everything that's wrong with this country. if there were decent paying jobs for average people in Detroit then they would look for work and be employed. I live in and near milltowns and all of them went to shot drugs and alcohol when all the Mills closed cause they couldn't compete with overseas product prices. So are we just tomleave these people with nothing? While the rich pay no taxes or taxes lower than they have ever paid?????Republican rich elite asshats did all of this. Help thy neighbor is gone cause of idiots like you. Get your head straight and do some real research instead of believing in everything Fox news says
@@greytallcloud5695 47% of Detroiters are illiterate. 52% of working age Detroiters DO NOT have a job and aren't even looking for one! Source: Detroit Free Press!
Hang up and try again lib-fool!
Watching your videos, and listening to your commentary - you are all right. I appreciate your perspective, as it is not far removed from my own.
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Detroit's DownFall.........Think the "Boogie Mansion and Coleman Young"
This city used to be one of the top ends. This is what happens when the car companies leave.
This is what happens when labor unions force the car companies to leave
SunnehShides Look at the above comment. Research Coleman Young. He was a "for us blacks" mayor (not going to capitalize his title) who helped speed the decline at a rate that none thought possible.
Pretty relatable to the situation in Eastern Europe.
DEMCAD this is part two of the note I just posted. I hope you read this, because I listened to your video again, and I'll place a bet you are college educated, you have a good job, and you are well liked. Your information and analysis on Detroit is incredible. Your commentary is very well spoken, no ums hums ah ums....you speak clearly and with focus. That is a rare ability. It might seem natural to you, but most people cannot keep focus for this long. You are a leader. Are you a lawyer? I'm not kidding, you are very well spoken and you have passion, you have great command of language. You can get people to listen to you and like you. I'd vote for you (but I live in Florida) I would not just vote for you, I would go all in and help you become mayor. Detroit needs men like you. Really. If not you...who? Keep your powder dry and your guns clean, I hope you never need to draw in self defense. But if you do, don't hesitate.
When entering Detroit, chamber a round.
Who carries with an empty chamber... lol
i am from europe [netherlands] its a very green city with long roads and old places
very nice to see . thanks .
Detroit is a nightmare. My advise for those who live there, don't let your feet fail you on the way out, and forget turning the light off when you walk out the door.
I'm very intrigued by Detroit, this video was very informative!
All those tree huggers should love Detroit, think of all the new plant life that has sprung up. It's great for all that harmful CO2 we exhale.
Just like us in the UK, your Jobs have been exported abroad. Products are made cheaper by Chinese etc, but Western Companies make bigger profits from foreign cheap Labour. The cost of items is probably not in reality, cheaper.
+Phil B Bro, the reason those countries are loosing jobs, is because we have overtaxed, over-regulated business (in order to provide free shit so politicians get votes) out of here. All those businesses used to be here and all of a sudden they leave?? Greed was always there since beginning of times. It's the wrong people that got too greedy. Gov'ts got greedy, so they can live at our expense for free. Well, here is the result. Labor used to be cheap here too and yet the average joe American had the best standard of living. Gov't got greedy and steal half of your paycheck.
Michael Batori Well summed up. Yes, we are often told by greedy companies, that goods would be dearer if we made them. It's lies.The market often decides the resulting price of goods, however Companies can now get goods made extremely cheap, and st the same time sell at market price which = huge profits. Unfortunately, this is encouraging Socialism. The Rich are idiots.
thats true
No the items still cost the same but most of it is garbage before you even open the box. I went through 4 can openers in 10 months because the tin can was harder than the can opener. Anyone else see the stupidity in that? My guess is that i'm alone on this planet and the rest of you are here to annoy me.
I am old enough to say that my family lived in Detroit and it's environs for almost 50 years...my grandfather worked at Ford Motor in Highland Park and My Mother and Father families lived off of Woodward Ave in HP..The Downtown area was great..between Hudson's and other merchants,you needed a whole day to shop there..Urban sprawl and Malls contributed to the decline, but losing adjunct employers to the auto industry helped quicken Detroit's doom..
Really good insight/commentary into a post-booming city that did not have to fail. Always wanted to take a gander to Detroit and now I did, from my computer in London, England. Thank you!
I go to Detroit often. However, you left off the best part, that being 8 mile. Especially the dozen or more strip clubs, hookers on almost every corner, and the rundown building with a spray paint sign GUN FOR RENT $15/HOUR! Detroit got so bad we quit having the gun shows (that I sold knives at), because gangs would come in and try to grab any and everything that wasn't tied down. It was the only show we who have CCWs could keep our guns loaded in the building.
Detroit isn't alone, almost all cities are becoming decapitated messes. I drove through Chicago, Denver, and Atlanta this year and they all have abandoned falling apart buildings with gang graphite all over the place.
I don't hate Detroit. I hate the people that ran my home into the ground. Its because of those people that I had to leave my families home of over 40 years just to be safe. Its in the condition it's in because people there let it happen... Coleman Young was loved... loved for what? Because he was black? Because he was Detroits first black mayor? Pretty much... The city went into the toilet under his watch. NOBODY can deny that...
The young people never got to see what the city was and it's sad.
The people there that love the way the city is are the people that are still destroying it OR brainwashed that there is no place for them on the other side of 8 mile... ok. let the hating on my message begin...
Coleman Young was one of the best Mayors of Detroit.
Very good video and well narrated, I will always have this good memory of Detroit as I was hitch hiking from Chicago back to Montreal in 1979, some business man picked me up near the big Uniroyal tire and once he found out that I was Canadian, he stopped at a pay phone and called his wife to tell her that they were having company for dinner, had a good meal with these fine folks, he showed me around Detroit some and then took me to the Ambassador bridge, I've been through Detroit a few times since I moved to Texas back in 1979 and would love to see that city prosper again.
I find your commentaries well thought and engaging. Gives me more to think about. Sad about Detroit. Lived there briefly downtown in the early 90s. Felt safe as long as I was on the right streets and places. Worked in some bad places and common sense and vigilance required at all times. Many places like that in any big city. You could tell at one time it was truly a grand city. Hope to see it come back but doubtful we’ll see this soon. Too many jobs gone, too many dollars gone. Lots of places like this. We can’t go on like this forever. Keep doing your work and spreading the word!
I will never enter Detroit...
where is eminem house??????!!!!!
TheDRAGOMANIA lmao do you really think that Eminem lives in Downtown Detroit?
yea
When he did live in Detroit, he lived in a house on Dresden Road, but someone set it on fire years after he moved out, so now it isn't there anymore. Eminem does own a Mansion not far from Detroit, but he barely goes there.
Awesome Gameplays
He also has a Studio in Detroit. But I'm not sure if he operates there.
Do you know where he lives?
norwegiangangsta I think usually he lives in southern California where his main studio is.
I visited from Australia 2013. I loved Detriot. Like your style dude.
I’m from Detroit. I visited Australia in 2010. 🇦🇺🦘🫶
"You don't know who's lurking behind the trees and it's complete darkness." Christ, sounds like a fucking war zone or something. You should be rolling around in an armored Humvee and an assault rifle.
Don't blame Obama, Detroit was a shithole long before he became a senator much more the president.
Proud to be Canadian. The U.S.A. is a mess.
The snow melts in the spring. Everything is looking good again. It snows in Detroit too, you know. But when that snow melts, does anything look good?
Dan, the difference is...We The People of these United States of America have done what we needed to do to right the ship by electing a true leader. You guys elected thad damned socialist Trudeau...let us know how that works out for ya.
+Dan Detroit is only a small part of the US. You're an idiot if you think this shitty black infested city represents all of America.
ROTAXD
1 year after electing him seem they are very happy with him and doing really well. Im planning to move there.
+Tony Shullz...see ya.
I'm only fifteen years old and I'm starting to know this stuff
I grew up in detroit. moved to virginia when i was 13 (1973)..I was in detroit in april...very pretty , per say right in downtown detroit....brought back alot of memories...so does this video..nicely done...also have 2 brothers there. oodles of nieces nephews, great nieces and nephews and cousins. This has to be the best video Ive ever viewed about detroit..sounds like one of my older brothers talking to me..:)