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OLD DETROIT WATCH: 0007 - 0022
[quote name="Rafiki"][quote]<ul> <li>If you're a Detroiter who needs a police officer, it will take 58 minutes to get help -- more than five times what it takes elsewhere in the United States.</li> <li>if you're walking around the city, it might make sense to bring a flashlight -- about 40% of the 88,000 street lights don't work</li> <li>40-year-old trees growing through the roofs of dilapidated houses</li> <li>[Emergency Manager] Orr said the city had filed for bankruptcy because it would take more than 50 years to pay off the city's $11.5 billion in unsecured debt while not conducting even the most basic maintenance, such as filling potholes and plowing snow</li> <li>The police department closes only 8.7% of its criminal cases, which the filing blames on the department's "lack of a case management system, lack of accountability for detectives, unfavorable work rules imposed by collective bargaining agreements and a high attrition rate in the investigative operations unit." </li> <li>The city's violent crime rate is five times the national average, and the highest of any city with a population exceeding 200,000</li> <li>70 Superfund hazardous waste sites</li> <li>A city-owned power plant that has been idle for two years at least </li> </ul> The governor added, "There are extremely good things going on in Detroit, outside of city government." [/quote] <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/19/news/economy/detroit-streetlights-police/index.html">16 things that are wrong in Detroit</a>[/quote]