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Originally Posted by Tungrus
Shooting and violence rarely happens in Detroit Downtown where FORD field, Joe Louis and COBO are located!  International Autoshow, and other major events is testimony for this.
Yes, Detroit city itself has its share of violence either due to drug peddlers or teens. CMP may be a good idea to motivate these teens into attending school, don't you think?
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I re-read this post a few times waiting for the sarcasm to hit me, but it didn't. Hopefully there was some there, because Detroit is one of the last places I would want to see CMP move to. Since we're already talking about dangerous cities...I'm going to actually respond to this.
While shooting and violence aren't as prolific downtown by the sports venues (for lack of a better general term), that doesn't mean they don't happen and that that it's a safe area. More safe than many other areas of Detroit, but that doesn't make it great. Most of downtown is actually a really, really nice place during the day (Midtown, museum district, sports venues, RenCen area), but I would be more concerned about at night. It's always a little worrisome to be wrangling a group of students at night in a large city, and the same concerns apply to Detroit.
I just looked at the crime statistics for both St. Louis and Detroit, and they don't differ as much as I originally thought, but there's a lot of other factors that make it a bad choice for a host city. Crime aside, there's also a lack of nearby (cost-effective) hotels and fast food joints, a pretty terrible police department, expensive parking near all of the large venues, lack of trailer/bus parking, and some pretty bad driving*. The city just doesn't have the means to support an event of this scale - the Auto Show attracts a huge (mostly adult, mind you) audience, but it doesn't have an audience that needs to stay nearby overnight for several nights without breaking the bank.
*Side story: I was watching the news once, and it was live reporting from a street in downtown Detroit. You could clearly see the cars passing on the road behind the reporter...and you could also clearly see a van doing a completely illegal U-turn in the middle of a busy road. No big deal. Again, bad driving.