We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

There is a lot of crossover crime in this area, where you have people who live in Wayne that commit crimes in Oakland or Macomb, or others living in those counties committing crimes in Wayne.

We were the first melting pot city in America. It's striking that those great waves of immigration from Mexico passed us by.

Both the perpetrators and the victims have been washed out,

I can't see the political storms aligning to allow that, ... I wish them well, but the view from the man on the street is, 'Why rebuild something if it's just going to flood again? Why not let it return to nature?'