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They're actually terrible points, which are very shallow and not pertinent to the situation


FYI the Demographics of the city of Detroit is roughly 86% black, to put it in perspective, it's not out of the statistical norm of the city's population


Wayne County is only 40% and this goes back as far as '84 when Detroit City was less than 75%


Does not matter what percentage of the county is black, what matters is what percentage of the population is where the rapes occurred, these rapes weren't all happening in the Pointes, Northville, Livonia, etc.

The majority of these kits are from a period of time where the Demographics were over 80% black in the city.


It was 5th with 1.8 million people, and was 4th in the 20s, 30s, and 40s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_in_the_...

Perhaps you could use Wikipedia to satisfy your curiosity


I'm not sure what your point is here? 4th or 5th is not very close to being largest (especially amongst cities which tend to have exponential curves in population - e.g. it's not surprising the 1st most populous city to be 3-5x the next largest)


Only point is the parent was

a) Wrong on the population in the year given

b) Choose the incorrect decade for peak population with respect to the size of other cities in the US.

c) Gave a snide remark to the user to use Wikipedia while unable to do so themselves...

[Edit rate limited reply] Well I guess you learn something new everyday, but the parent insinuated the poster did not know this to be the case with the BTW, so you can read it however you'd like


That remark was not snide... I found it informative, I had no idea Wikipedia had "Demographic history of" pages.


The one county is home to one very big issue, Detroit, in case you weren't paying attention to the early 2000s the city of Detroit was in an utter state of failure with respect to every aspect associated with a modern urban center.

Detroit's crime lab was so inept the state shut it down in 2008


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