How The Illegal Drug Business Ruined Detroit.

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Detroit was at its worst from the 1970's through the 90's. Drug trafficking and gangs ruled the city during this time which gave Detroit the reputation of being the most dangerous city in the country for decades. In this video I talk about the gang and illegal drug culture from that era and how it helped Detroit be in the condition that the city is in today.
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[@jakeknapp6833]

Crack epidemic shouldn’t happen who created them and why influence gangs and plus mean behavior and more and other causes poor Detroit

[@k.p.bolden7329]

Cops were in the pockets of the Kingpins.

[@redrum3405]

“White flight” wasn’t entirely voluntary. My grandparents lived near brightmore until the 70s and were driven out by a series of seemingly targeted violent crimes. Something that will never make the history books but which everyone in my family remembers. Today most of hat block is a field and only two inhabited houses are left

[@jakeknapp6833]

That shouldn’t happen it cause race always segregated neighborhoods later become ghettos and crime areas racial stereotypes gangsta rap drug problems criminals and more

[@Jacob-hk6to]

You can’t apply that experience to all cities, of course.

[@charjolly6067]

Brightmoor here too. Dad moved us out in the mid 70s. Got too scary 😮

[@idahopotato5837]

My Dad grew up next to Brightmoor and told me that anyone that moved away from Brightmoor never said they lived there. It was bad in the 70's but I could ride my bike around there as a skinny white kid. Everyone was "cool".

[@Comm0ut]

@@jakeknapp6833 They have to move to save themselves If people stay they lose everything. If they sell and leave then the people who inherit the area rule it as they see fit.

[@injs1236]

Thanks for your vids. I was born in Detroit in 1954 and lived, worked, schooled, and recreated all over the city and it's suburbs. Moved to the UP around 1988 and have not spent much visiting home since. Your vids are a refreshing way to visit my old stomping grounds. Thank you.

[@David53D]

I used to sit up by Farwell Field and play my guitar sometimes late at night and had the cops come up to me asking if that was my car parked on the street, they would go through it until they found my weed and then simply take it wishing me a nice night.

[@nathanmyles3785]

I went to Farwell for junior high, 89-91

[@Bravetreee]

Love the commentary to the complainers. We all have bad parts of our state, no need to be defensive about it.

[@crumdoggy]

I disagree. A massive American city, once wealthy and strong, has effectively died. It is an American tragedy.

[@JackReacheround]

@@crumdoggy It died because of greed. So many jobs lost to other countries so that CEOs could keep stuffing their pockets.

[@Heroesbleed]

Let’s not forget the role that culture plays in the socio-economic outcomes in Detroit.

[@stephenbrand5661]

How the hell could anybody forget when there are comments like this on literally every video about urban places in America?

[@Heroesbleed]

@@stephenbrand5661 I’ve never read a comment about culture and socio-economic outcomes in urban areas in our country. In fact, people want to blame everything EXCEPT culture. Racism, drugs, poverty, lack of jobs….none of those things are responsible. It’s always culture.

[@stephenbrand5661]

@@Heroesbleed OK so how do you explain McDowell County, West Virginia? It's the poorest county in WV and it has a drug overdose rate 4 times higher than the state average for West Virginia. It also has the highest teen pregnancy rate by far and more than 50% of the economy is government benefit checks.

[@Heroesbleed]

@@stephenbrand5661 To answer your question, do you even understand what I’m saying? Do you understand what I mean when I say “culture”? If we can agree on the definition, then you have the answer to your question.

[@stephenbrand5661]

@@Heroesbleed By culture I'm assuming you mean inner city African American culture, the dominant culture in Detroit.

[@kenthomas1535]

How did this happen....Coleman Young

[@johnleon2594]

You blaming CAY for the rest of the country too 🤔🤔 Too many moving parts to BLAME 1 PERSON 💯💯💯

[@jrc340]

@@johnleon2594 How? The Detroiters who freely voted for him and those like him that followed. They got exactly what they voted for.

[@scaredy-cat]

To start

[@AnthonyTucker-sl4zj]

Coleman Young wasn't able to do the things Cavanaugh,Gribbs and even Bowles,because Youngs' constituents didn't have JOBS,since when all the whites left after black soldiers began to settle into white neighborhoods, the industrial sector left right BEHIND them!! Then the State greatly REDUCED funding to the Detroit public schools!! 😮

[@AnthonyTucker-sl4zj]

Listen,as a 53-year denizen of Detroit there have been no "GANGS" in Detroit since 1978 when "Young Boys Incorporated"(a drug cartel,not a gang) showed everybody there was no PROFIT in gang-banging,but PLENTY to be made selling"raw"!! And Richard Wershe was called on the streets:"White Rick",NOT"White BOY Rick",the Detroit Free Press added the"Boy"in to increase newspaper sales with suburban Detroiters' by insinuating one of THEIR innocent"children"was involved in Detroits' deadly drug trade!! Trust me,I'd SOLD crack in the mid-eighties for a spell!! 😮 He was known as"White Rick"on the streets in the 80s'!!!😮

[@mistamastamind]

Gangs were mentioned in this video but growing up in Detroit in the 80's & 90's, Detroit had what you call "Gun slingers" instead of "gangbangers". Many gangs tried to establish in Detroit but were met with strong resistance!

[@45AMT]

Another great video. I've learned more about Detroit from these videos, then anywhere else. Thanks for the great informative videos!

[@DMBall]

Drugs by themselves never seriously harmed Detroit or any other major city in America. The Prohibition of drugs, just like the temporary prohibition of alcohol, unleashed a violence-prone black market which continues to thrive today. And will do so until the "war on drugs" ceases.

[@Henry_Jones]

I said the same thing further down in the comments.

[@charlesphilhower1452]

So having large numbers of dysfunctional people because of illegal drugs is a good thing. California seems to think so because they give out free needles.

[@Henry_Jones]

@@charlesphilhower1452 nobodys saying they should enable drug use but the war on drugs created a market where a poor kid could get rich very quickly. High risk high reward.

[@charlesphilhower1452]

@@Henry_Jones That is true but the Democratic solution is to enable illegal drug use and let people use streets as toilets.

[@Henry_Jones]

@@charlesphilhower1452 the dems in CA are morons who dont support law enforcement and theyre suffering the conciquences. There needs to be a middle ground.

[@YeahNah100]

Interesting. This is random, but I have a random Audible recommendation for those long hours of driving. The book is Blue Highways. This style of video kinda made me think of it due to the historical story telling that you included. Keep up the good work ✌️

[@OGbobbyKUSH]

For how run down the city looks you wouldn’t believe how much money is actually in the city!

[@stephenbrand5661]

4:43 THANK YOU CHRIS!!! I feel like this really needs to be emphasized. I'm old enough to remember the early 90's and compared to today things are SO much better when it comes to violent crime! I can remember when Times Square and a bunch of other parts of Midtown and Downtown Manhattan were dangerous, sketchy places instead of play grounds for the rich. I can remember when Newark, NJ and the South Bronx looked like Berlin in 1945. Back in 2020 we had economic disruptions that were bigger than anything since the Great Depression. Desperate people do desperate things and that kind of hardship always brings crime.

[@CsImre]

The rise of surveillance means that crime won't be ever the same in "frequented" places.

[@steve41557]

When the Democrats ran New York City, seems crime was rampant.

[@stephenbrand5661]

@@steve41557 "when the Democrats ran New York City." I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. New York City only has about one Republican for every seven registered Democrats. A Republican in New York City would be considered a liberal Democrat anywhere else in the country, including Rudy Giuliani when he was mayor.

[@brianbeecher3084]

@@CsImre yet we were so paranoid concerning the police states of Communist countries back when I was growing up. Especially since 9/11 we have inched ever closer to becoming one ourselves.

[@asan6914]

Illegal drugs vs corrupt city government . Which do you think is responsible???

[@nathanmyles3785]

Both

[@asan6914]

Corrupted govt officials let if proliferates. There is big money in drugs: billions that it is bigger than any Fortune 500 company. When drug proliferates , it is because they allow it!

[@edlee2336]

Both equally.

[@nathanmyles3785]

@@asan6914 - It only works if somebody falls for it and thousands did and that's why things happened the way they did. At some point, you have to be accountable for yourself. I grew up in this era of Detroit and saw the devastation firsthand, people had a choice and they took that route and destroyed their communities. Even as a preteen, when kids I played with got started in that mess, I couldn't see how guys could sell poison to their mothers, friends mothers and people they're supposed to love along with seeing the neighborhood deteriorate to scraps. The politicians and government may have put it there, but we didn't have to take the bait.

[@nathanmyles3785]

It just wasn't worth it, just to have fly clothes and sneakers

[@Henry_Jones]

If you and everyone around you were dirt poor and had the oppertutunity to make insane $$$ super fast youd go for it too. Making drugs illegial with high prison sentences made the prices that much higher and makes the $$$ you could earn that much more. Simple ecenomics.

[@bscottb8]

Why is getting a job taboo? It's considerably less stressful.

[@Henry_Jones]

@@bscottb8 less jobs than people and what would you rather do if you were born into the culture of poverty? Earn minimum wage and pay taxes or make BANK and get respected for it? It was the world these people lived in.

[@dannydaw59]

Single parent families caused the poverty. The parents didn't teach good and bad to the kids. Combine that with poor kids seeing others on MTV with gold jewelry and tacky running suits and getting jealous over it & you've got a recepie for disaster.

[@Right-Is-Right]

People do not realize, that if you supersized the buildings to NYC sized apartment buildings, add thirty years, you will be watching videos like this in thirty years about NYC. The corporations are hollowing out and leaving, the small businesses are slowly closing down and leaving, The people are leaving, while the people staying refuse to admit the city is slowly dying off, even as they revel in the fact that they can drive across the city quicker.

[@sitdowndogbreath]

Not with all those potholes over the place

[@Comm0ut]

No problem. Don't live there and leave early not late. No one NEEDS to live in one place their whole life. I'm proof. I escaped the NY metro area forty years ago because the future was obvious. The people who stay chose their fate but NYC has always been expensive, crowded, with unaffordable property. America is enormous but people are too scared to change (though their ancestors switched countries many won't even switch states). These trends are predictable and the only people surprised were not watching.

[@MassiveChetBakerFan]

I'm starting to think that Detroit may have been poorly managed.

[@munsters2]

Coleman and Kwame.

[@AnthonyTucker-sl4zj]

Yeah,Kwame is undefendable,but Coleman Young was an excellent mayor,and that damned"shuffling"Dennis Archer vehemently CONDEMNED casino gambling,until he-------got ELECTED then "bought" by the casino lobby and opened THREE of them!! 😶

[@clubhouseme]

never address one major factor and that's the fatherless homes and the black culture problem that encourages criminal behaviour , along with rap thug culture. sometime somewhere maybe some accountability for your own misfortune instead of playing victim forever.

[@brandonmccurry3810]

Thank you for pointing this out, because it is totally true.

[@shelbyz1974]

Appreciate all the facts and figures on Detroit. Always a good day when you learn something new. Thanks Chris!👍

[@ChrisHarden]

Thank you, Shelby!

[@johnmcque4813]

This video should have started with Mayor young, and his gang, Young Boy's incorp.

[@rodneymckoy6515]

False

[@garymartin1045]

Yeah, and his niece was best friends with white boy. Rick, a Drug dealer Who mysteriously was convicted for 30 years of prison while other drug dealers, who killed people' And we're corruptor got off.

[@munsters2]

Another great video. Thanks. I like the way you have the street name and direction on video. Do you pre-plan your route or do you just wander around?

[@ChrisHarden]

Thanks for the kind words, and everything is pre-planned

[@drstevenrey]

Drugs have never ever ruined any city, town or land. It is the drug users that ruin everything.

[@PenelopePeppers]

Macomb Counry is a Big One------Ride the 560 to Chesterfeild and to Detroit back....It's called the :560 Heorin Runl "

[@richbrake9910]

My mother grew up right off Woodward Avenue in Highland Park. I could give you the long history about why Detroit has failed, but do not have the space or time here, but yes, drugs were a large contributing factor. I will tell you guys this; When Chrysler moved it's headquarters out of Highland Park (where my mother retired) in 1996 to a location thirty miles north, Chrysler gave Highland Park $40,000,000 in 1996 to help make up for the tax and job losses, but the city is so broke today, it cannot even afford to turn on the streetlights, which of course increases crime in an area that now has one of the highest amounts of crime per capita in the country.

[@brantnicholas6743]

Just tweeted about your great Detroit videos thanks for the interesting videos.

[@craigbenz4835]

Detroit has fascinated me for a while, and your videos make mind run wild with all sorts of "what if" ideas.

[@OGbobbyKUSH]

Bmf may have been headquartered in Atlanta but meech and his brother were born here in Detroit.

[@bobcostner2238]

Detroit has a homestead tax rate of 85 mills. in other words, 200K dollar house is taxed at 1/2 so that would be a tax bill of $8,500.00 to live in a war zone that even the police announced that you are on your own down there and advise everyone to arm themselves. so now you say well a home is just 1.00 right? yes they are however the state will assign a value regardless of what you paid. and thats for a primary home. you only get a tax break on primary home. so that same figure if its a rental home will be 12K dollar tax bill. oh yeah Detroit is making a comeback! lol

[@ricosally6734]

Facts ! I keep telling people how can the same people that took it down bring it back, it's like nobody is moving there

[@fritzkabeano1969]

Gee.....let's see.....pay the same taxes in Destroit with shitty services and schools or move to the suburbs and pay the same taxes w/great services/schools. Real difficult choice.

[@bobcostner2238]

@@ricosally6734 see you get it!

[@bobcostner2238]

@@fritzkabeano1969 oh no that same tax bill in the suburbs is 1/2 that of Detroit. 30-40 mils in suburbs. Destroit😂 Thats a good one, my pet name for it is Detoilet

[@fritzkabeano1969]

It was Detoilet but after it's flushing has now become Destroit.

[@ethancook5705]

Chicago and Indianapolis are not far behind. I have lived in both cities over the past 47 years of my life. Both cities have really gone downhill over the past 25 years. Like Detroit, both cities lost a large number of manufacturing jobs due to the failed free trade policies passed since the 1970s.

[@ociarumora9255]

Literally just had a meth lab in an abandoned building blow up down the street, on the main drag, right in my neighborhood. About 5 blocks down from me. Smelled the meth smoke in the living room.

[@fritzkabeano1969]

That was a reefer oil factory not meth.

[@OGbobbyKUSH]

Well a lab is a lab 😂

[@linda5120]

I was born in Detroit lived through two riots left when I was 17 and Left and never went back I'm now 71

[@1982kinger]

You can pretty much pinpoint the death of the American city with the rise of the drug epidemic.

[@bscottb8]

The drug epidemic is a symptom. Paying people not to work (i.e., welfare) allows unlimited free time to destroy themselves and the city.

[@rochellelampkin3973]

The drug industry caused horrible condition in most Urban areas however, it was always seen a BLACK American population was the reason. As long as the BLACK COMMUNITY was dying nothing was done. But CRACK HIT WHITE SUBURBAN PEOPLE THEN IT BECAME A REAL PROBLEM.

[@BrianJNelson]

As you're driving around all of those empty lots, all I'm thinking is "Man, someone should buy up the land and build some new houses."

[@redrum3405]

They do, often buying a whole block and building new. But crime is still awful and property taxes are high. It’s just so much easier to live in a low crime suburb

[@munsters2]

RE:Brian Nelson. WHY? Nobody would buy them and either arsonists would burn them down and/or theives would steal the plumbing and everything else from them.

[@Comm0ut]

Land alone is nothing. LOCATION and jobs are key to growth. Never do anything silly when it comes to money.

[@violetsky2225]

Love your work. Very informative ..

[@injs1236]

State Fair. Saw, Christy Minstrels, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Bill Monroe, Barry McGuire, Supremes, Bob Seger and the Last Heard, and many others at the STate Fair "free" shows. Remember the competing farmers would sleep in the stalls with their animals during fair time.

[@ItsTheCostanza]

Politics let the drugs in and Anti drug programs fuel the problem more

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525]

Excuses excuses

[@crumdoggy]

Drugs were a symptom, not the cause. The families of Detroit started to collapse as well paying industrial jobs departed the region. Had these well paying working class jobs and their massive contributions to the property tax base stayed in the area, the city wouid not have collapsed.

[@hemibeep]

They city was in bad shape prior to the drug epidemic. A combination of poor fiscal management & white flight doomed it in the early 60's. Drugs just hastened the slide.

[@douglasmacrae8947]

Always enjoy watching your videos! 👍

[@ChristianGustafson]

>drugs Yeah, that’s it. Good eye. (edit) reading “Devil’s Night” atm.

[@novinnovations4026]

Drugs are one of the least of the historic issues

[@davidshaw7505]

How saddened it had become. Former Detroit resident

[@river4837]

Why don't they start farming Detroit?? Look at the vast amount of potential.

[@munsters2]

RE:river. The thieves would steal the crops, the fuel and the farm equipment and possibly shoot the farmers.

[@Comm0ut]

What do you known about farming? Who are "they"? The US has enormous amounts of farmland that's not in a terrible location. Farm equipment is expensive and would prompty get stolen. Detroit's problem is the people who live there. They chose to destroy it. The people who left chose to escape the people they KNEW would destroy it.

[@SkyfromLa]

Also black flight happened in the 90s hints why Southfield and redford are mostly black now everyone who could left expeditiously 😂

[@BillyT531]

Don''t forget Oak Park, South Warren, East "Pointe" Harper Woods, St. Clair Shores, and Roseville...all ghetto.

[@phookadude]

Oops, looks like you stepped in the pure Michigan.

[@ronsliwinski]

I grew up on Conley Street by E. McNichols and Davison. Lived there until 1997. Thank you for taking a drive through the streets and providing some history and context to what happened.

[@Danny365x]

Detroit is very old. Much older then they tell us. Mudflood and tartarian / old world buildings. Turned it all ghetto so we won't look at it

[@leonarddurecki5988]

I lived at the Fontaine Motel between 2017-20, you can see it at 2:38.

[@fritzkabeano1969]

Illegal drugs didn't ruin Destroit. The people did. End of story.

[@Hanover-ek4jy]

And corrupt local politicians did not help either!

[@5ringsaudits]

Ha, there was more than a Netflix about White Boy. Matthew McConaughey played his father is a major motion picture...

[@stratcat4450]

My dad an his brothers had a tv shop on e state fair started in the early 50s or maybe even earlier. The serviced tv sets at low cost in shop, an my dad was the in home guy. Even in the 60s that neighborhood was poor, rough an dangerous. They fixed many a set for free if it meant the kids could watch some entertainment. They gave away un claimed sets to the poor. We were blessed but also pretty poor. Having actual meat for dinner was a treat not a daily thing. Well come 1967 an that little dump of a shop got looted an destroyed like everything else. Finaly my mom had bitched enough that my dad finally left the business, post riots the shop continually got robbed, first at nite then during the day too. Finally some thugs beat my uncle so bad he suffered brain damage. THE END. Other than the riots i don't think it was a racial issue as much as just thugs taking over the NIEGHBRHOOD reguardless of whatever color thier skin is.....

[@glynnjohnson2194]

Interesting. Never saw one police car, fire truck, or emergency vehicle.

[@sitdowndogbreath]

That's because somebody stole them too

[@cs4500]

White Boy Rick is from the West side of Detroit, Suburb went to City of Wayne Westland school district. Same as me.

[@cs4500]

Hamtramck was Polish aka Pole Town long before Caldians moved in.

[@OGbobbyKUSH]

How many time were you stopped on your ride and asked if you want a “sample” 😂

[@michaelrose5079]

Great videos learn a lot how bad off Detroit really is.

[@omegalamda3145]

The thing about Detroit. The bad are badassed. The good are big hearted and very chill.

[@jeffrussell9523]

Locked an loaded. It sucks. 6 years still come to my door like that. 6 an Chalmers

[@jeffrussell9523]

Honk e in the hood. Old school

[@SkyfromLa]

Bro check out a book called “Detroit”by Charlie laduff

[@rochellelampkin3973]

DETROIT MICHIGAN IS A CLEAN SLATE FOR NEW HOMES AND BUSINESSES. DON'T JUST A PART OF THE REBIRTH MAKE THE BABY RAISE UP THE CHILD BE PROUD OF THE REBIRTH. DETROIT MICHIGAN CAN BE A NEW TOMORROW.

[@user-zq3hc9ip6x]

Henry Ford was born in Michigan. 100 years later, Michigan Central revival for new technology. Despite everything, they love their hometown like all people do. God bless them!

[@PRODUCEDBYKEV]

I drove a cab in this area in the 90s.

[@PaladinOfNerds]

"Crack was cheaper and junkies liked the buzz better than Heroine, and that's all she wrote on the Errol Flynns." Daaaamn, innovation kills business even in the black markets. But then competition necessitates innovation I suppose...

[@mondayquarterback9174]

No heroin addict prefers crack over H. None. They are complete opposites.

[@joshriver75]

Keep up the good work. love every single one of your videos

[@lorainefishel4722]

Great video's Chris!

[@BillyT531]

And they all vote Democratic...go figure.

[@airbrushken5339]

Most post here are from younger people... After the Detroit Race Riots of 1967 (they even brought in the 101st Airborne Headquarters Company, as the rest were in Vietnam, to help end it). Whole streets were leveled and white folks moved out to the north.... Then they close almost all the DOD civilian jobs by closing the three main military bases plus the Auto plants like Pontiac Motors, Fisher Body and General Motors Truck and Coach... The state was gutted job wise... Drugs was but a small part. I finish college after my 9 years military in Michigan and moved to Australia... we don't have guns, we do have a drug problem. I was a combat Veteran and the Team sniper... I haven't owned a gun since I got out. I remember Pontiac and Detroit being great cities when I was a kid...parades, big stores.... I remember a large sign on I-75 just before I left; "Last one out of Detroit, please turn off the lights". Also Hamtramck was mostly Polish immigrants as Dodge opened it's first Auto plant there back in the early 1900's. Even the Polish born Pope, in 1985 visited Hamtramck and held a church service for the residents...

[@danielsentertainmentproduc1527]

Yo I know it's off topic but how can I make a very great custom google Maps with more icons (skull, car, etc)?

[@MrTaeDaniel]

Wait, I'm not done watching your 7 hour video. I'm in Kansas.

[@Petty_Omen]

Around 2006 I was fascinated by the decay of West Robinwood and I was really hoping to catch a glimpse of its current state here. Alas, no such luck.

[@jumpinjimmyg2164]

Google Street view it

[@somerandomvertebrate9262]

Was fascinated by this street as well, only few years later. In the early 2010's, there was apparently a single old lady living on the street. She was the only one left, all the rest being empty, dilapidated houses. Then, in 2015 I believe, it was all torn down, with the exception of a handful of buildings, and it's been green urban prairie ever since.

[@Petty_Omen]

@@somerandomvertebrate9262 thanks for this!

[@Knightmessenger]

4:22 I'm sure others have pointed out but it was the illegality of drugs and aggressive criminalization that caused gang violence and crime. Just like alcohol prohibition in the 1920s. Another reason for the crime was the lingering effects of lead in gasoline. Taking lead out of gas has correlated to a significantly crime drop, offset by a 23 year delay, in every place it has been studied. The US saw significant crime drop in the 90s as people in the teens and 20s by then had been born after lead wasn't allowed in new vehicles. Also, there are a lot of neighborhoods in Detroit besides the Palmer Woods, Indian Village and Boston Edison that are still mostly intact, unlike the blocks shown here. But I've noticed they tend to be more on the west side.

[@votejohndoe1038]

detroit kept growing till its population numbers kept going up and when then the population numbers began to decline, Detroit began to decline. Immigration would have solved the problem like it did early in its hay day.

[@OhioTruPatriot]

Kool Channel I lived in Detroit aka Highland Park 6m and Hamilton in a 20 story building......from 2002 - 2006 right by Palmer Park There where some beautiful almost gated neighborhood's maybe even by that Detroit Urban Survival guy.... there was a nice golf course back there too ! But Woodward ave by the highway or dejavo , there was a gay club to that I thought was a neighborhood bar called the Rainbow 🌈? or something right next to a cony island 313

[@leeclark9056]

The State and Detroit could’ve stopped this madness if they offered economic opportunities. This video does not go deep enough

[@rdickson447]

Diisagree on that. Worked at Rouge and the daily number up on plant wall when entering to let a winner know. Beyond that, it was common knowledge that drugs available for price. But work still got done-- pretty much the whole of 72 was working 12 hrs a day 7 days a week. What flocked the duck was substandard engineering, , a hostile atmosphere between white collar-blue collar that never existed in Japanese or German factories. Everything downhill now-- bet there are more foreign enrolled in prestigious engineering schools across nation than American

[@jradcliffe4968]

It made a lot of millionaires. Who are now owning businesses and real estate investors among other launding of drug money . Go figure .

[@iamgriff]

5:12 sitting there waiting for a train. A couple of kids tried to obtain my pickup truck by force one early morning. The kids are no more, and the PD ruled in my favor. You should make a video of the city between midnight and 4am. This will show a more accurate description of the census

[@yashabenyishrael120]

Most non of those stories had anything to do with these areas the movie portray. The stories is not 100 either. At least not equal to the echoes of the streets .

[@Marioheat24]

Winners don't use drugs

[@ChrisHarden]

Depends on what kind of winners you’re talking about

[@Marioheat24]

@@ChrisHarden illegal ones lol I don't want to discourage a lot of people who used it I can't blame them but sadly those illegal drugs are dangerous to their health I hope the the druglords get their taste of justice I wish people including people like democraps and republicants could just wake up and stop attacking people for speaking the facts of the reality of things like tax problems in the city, poverty and corruption.

[@sandraroberts7406]

WHO WAS BEHIND THE DRUGS THAT GOT INTO DETROIT?

[@rodneymckoy6515]

Who

[@davidmckinney6066]

Man Please the factories damage Detroit “ White Flight” killed Detroit once Detroit figured to move things to the suburbs it was a rap for Detroit!

[@jameshorton3692]

Yeah, no

[@StarSurvivor1585]

When you mive major economic employers out of an area all problems will ensue.

[@jumpinjimmyg2164]

There was a property near state fair that was called theater bizarre. Is that still standing?

[@stevenbelcher8830]

enjoy the drives and some of the snarky comments. Even though your evaluation doesn't always recognize how quickly the rebound is happening, you don't lie about what you do know. One point you, and so many miss, is that more riots by whites occured prior to 67, and another major note, Detroit has been a gang town far before its current street gang issue. Think THE PURPLE GANG, JIMMY HOFFA, the Tocco Zerilli and Gambino families, and other ethnic gangs far larger than the young boys. All major issues that led to the cities collapse. So who bred who? Until recently it " just was" until Kwame and his friends decided being discrete wasn't necessary.

[@k.p.bolden7329]

Heroine was the drug of choice before crack.

[@bobs1356]

Tell me about it

[@k.p.bolden7329]

You forgot about the Best Friends.

[@johnkozak61]

2 race riots and whites fled

[@bobs1356]

Look at the weeds in the suburbs.

[@johnyacks7690]

Drug problems seem to be everywhere. Get out on them dirt roads.

[@johnkozak61]

3 race riots and whites fled 🤗

[@caperucito5]

10:42 - someone bought a dose and left happy lol

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525]

Detroit this is your City on drugs...............😱

[@thr0w407]

It wasn't illegal drugs. It was corporate greed. Drugs are a consequence.

[@remotetrekker-dg3re]

Detroit has always been a heroin town. Still is.

[@KC______]

The gang was called the Earl Flinns and had nothing to do with the Hollywood actor. Earl Flinn (iirc) had been a well known East Side gangster. The East Side of Detroit had quite a few gangs including The Bishops, The Chene Gang, The Crusaders long before the BK's, The Coney Onlys ( named after The Mafia family in 'The Godfather ' films though {obviously} misspelled) and The Earl Flinns, Pony Down , YBI etc . ✊🏾🗽✌🏽🇺🇸

[@remotetrekker-dg3re]

Sounds like you watched Scott Bernstein's documentary.

[@KC______]

@@remotetrekker-dg3re No, I have heard of the guy, I'm just a native Detroiter. Never was in a gang, though I had various kith and kin who were involved in nefarious situations. ✌🏽🗽✊🏾🇺🇸

[@traceyhicks2598]

I put the bell on and subscribed so that I will get your videos when they first come out so that hopefully you will read my comment while it's still new Rick was one of the biggest drug dealers of the 80s and early '90s he didn't fall victim to crime like he didn't want to do it but they made him do it you don't know what you're talking about furthermore there are many good Detroit neighborhoods regular working people that is the majority all you show is the dilapidated part of Detroit over and over again yes you might have a video on palmerwood which is where the people rich people live in Detroit I grew up on the east side down by the river not Downriver but by the border of Grosse Pointe on East Jefferson on Riverside Drive why don't you do a video on that take a look at that show that. There many beautiful big houses that still stand today that whole neighborhood is good I never see you going in there I never see you coming where I reside right now you are really not doing a good thing

[@70galaxie]

all access to home price publication,en Debtroit,are vastly inflated above reality

[@gordon3730]

You missed hafta moved manufacturers out in droves.

[@KevinEllisGuitars]

Interesting

[@river4837]

A lot of brick homes survived.

[@markvogel5872]

I like your videos but your take on why the crime is the way it is is a little bit off.

[@ccfunk1]

Yeah i know the criminal element of Detroit. i even been victimized there. but some of my best times were in the D. i still have many friends and family there. i someday hope to return there.