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      5 months ago

      I had a field trip to some old churches in Detroit in the late 90s. On a weekday we saw two cars on fire like full blazing infernos at different places with one flipped upside down.

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          It’s very different now, crime went way down when some organized crime stopped feuding and follows similar trends across all major US cities until an uptick again around the start of COVID

          Alt: graph from clickondetroit.con that shows the average downward trend in Detroit homicide from the 90s to 2016