detroit is not ALL that bad (yes it is) I used to live there (not anymore) and now I live near the crime hotspot of my local small town, as one of my friends put it "there's probably a shooting going on at that empty warehouse right now" people sleep in the old shed in my backyard and do other naughty things there after they break into it, so there are a few bongs lying around, and a bunch of other grandma innaproprate things, as well as cigarette butts and broken glass all over.
overall: the best of detroit is not as bad as the worst of other places, and kalamazoo has it a little worse over all than detroit, but detroit has a much much much worse reputation than kalamazoo, but I know people that have been shot in kalamazoo, but not detroit, the sad thing is that I know more casualties of gang wars than of actual wars, at 5 and 3