It´s got nothing to do with street lights, or gun registration. Murderers don´ register their guns. We have lived thousands of years, quite peacibly, without street lives.
But two question needs asking. How come Detroit looks so like Africa? How come there are so many (percentage) of people on welfare?

Answer these, and we might start solving the problem.

One more comment. Get rid of the union labor laws, and business might start coming back. Have the schools start teaching a work ethic.

#2 poses several questions all of which can be answered with one word: liberalism.

The last couple of paragraphs address a good solution. Bankruptcy would clean a lot of slates.

Romney made that same point about GM during the election. He was right. I don´t think Obama will let Detroit go down the way of bankruptcy. We´ll have to wait and see.

They all have Obama mayors. Let them go where it don´t shine.

Let´s cede Detroit to Canada.

They´ll know what to do with it.
Or not.
But at least we´ll be rid.

Broken street lights are broken by delinquents/criminals. Broken street lights do not cause murder. Murderers (evildoers, criminals, immoral human beings) cause murders.
Please speak truthfully and directly about the declining moral climate in the United States. It is aided and abetted by "authority figures" in and out of "government" who are liars, thieves, fraudsters, rapists (literally and figuratively), counterfeiters, and murderers, and cowards too.
Moral decline tracks with social/economic/political decline.
By the way, when I use the words "moral" or "morality" I mean "right conduct towards self and other - no violence".

Just look for the Union label, its written all over these cities.

Once the last gangsta thug moves out of the city, entrepeneurial pioneers will come in and buy properties for $10 an acre. They´ll bulldoze the few remaining houses and build anew. They´ll get rich, the new settlers will be close to downtown and work and thugs won´t be able to afford to live there. Problem solved. No sarcasm.


Girl´s Hubby

"Council member Kwame Kenyatta claimed at this week’s council meeting: “There are other activities that you can have on Belle Isle that will generate revenue and create jobs.”"

Is he referring to drug deals and prostitution?

A city of cave dwellers who do not have the smarts or skills to survive in the modern age.

The broken street lights are only a sign of the conditions, not a contributing factor to killing people.

You might as well say cars are stolen because people don´t have good shoes.

But the article is right. A lot of these cities keep hurting themselves.

Economic disaster occurs when cities and states are run by blacks and/or liberals.