Crime In Detroit Case Study

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Previously home to about 2 million middle-class residents, Detroit now has 700,000 residents. As the world’s automotive capital in early 20th century, new workers, namely immigrants and African-Americans, were attracted to the industrial city and led to the formation of ethnic and racial enclaves, which also spurred racial, urban, and spatial segregation. The stock market crash in 1929 heavily affected manufacturing sectors in Detroit, followed by deindustrialization, suburbanization, and the gradual decline of the auto industry. State investment has only been developing the downtown inner core for the wealthy white elite since then, leaving about 1/3 of the city vacant.
Crime in Detroit has increased and decreased with changing demographics

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