Devil's night
and other true tales of Detroit
by Zeʼev Chafets · first published 1990
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…1910's still basically are the same reasons the crime rate are higher today. Edit: also, the best book I have read on the more modern problem of violence and urban decay in northern American cities is "Devil's Night" by Ze'Ev Chafets http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Night-Other-Detroit-Vintage-ebo...
on “Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware” ↗…100k in 1991. That's nearly a 10X increase. That rise in crime was predominantly black on black and black on white. Naturally, the middle class whites who could afford it, fled the city. The book "Devil's Night" by Chafets gives some first hand documentation of the people who left, but I haven't read it. I have read "Carnasie" by Jonathan Rieder, who chronicles the exact same process in Brooklyn. Rieder's…
on “Detroit in Ruins” ↗