detroit leading detroit and then the black leading detroit, their tax basically decimated, the manufacturing sector basically falling apart and they don t have jobs. it s a very bad situation that s been a long time in the making and it s going to be very hard to solve. charles? it s sort of a classic example of a city that was once as its peak and has taken all of the success and to get away and decline has not been able to adopt. it was a thriving industry, obviously the auto industry was running the world in the 60s after the second world war when there was no competition. they got used to the great union benefits, the retirement, health care, they got used to all of the other handouts and money from the government and when hard times arrived, it was impossible to, in the end, do anything because it would be seen as a cruel reduction of x, y, and z and now they wind up in a place that everyone is going to get a haircut, the bond
i expressed to him my concerns. did he take stwrong enourong enn to make sure that things improved, apparently not. telling the mayor he s banned from meeting with women alone. any time the city is put on notice that there s a problem, that notice is followed by inaction and it definitely increases the city s potential of exposure. some fear the city is already exposed. here s why. all employees are entitled to a work environment free from harassment, including unwelcome, unsolicited or unwanted behavior. now listen to what filner admitted to last week. i have failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me. behavior that would have been tolerated in the past is being called out in this generation for what it is, inappropriate and wrong. he said he needed help, he had mistreated women and therefore he was going to get sexual harassment training.
census. in 2012, detroit had the highest violent crime rate for a city with more than 200,000 residents, according to the fbi. a bankruptcy filing by a long struggling city is essentially the largest ever by a u.s. municipality. so let s bring in our panel. judge andrew napolitano, columnist for the daily beast. judge, for a lot of people this is not a surprise but it does raise interesting questions about what happens in detroit and what happens to a lot of cities on the brink. it also raises interesting questions about the status of the economy today which the president is boasting is on its way back. it s a catastrophic failure for them in a situation that has almost gone for the president. these numbers, $18 billion in debt, 2 million unsecured, this
direction but now that we are here, we have to make the best of it. i think kevin and the team that he s brought together has a lot of history of succeeding. this is very difficult for all of us. but if it s going to make the citizens better off, then this is a new start for us. the white house releasing a statement late this afternoon saying this. the president and members of the president s team continue to closely monitor the situation in detroit while leaders on the ground and the city s creditors understand they must find a solution to detroit s serious financial challenge. we remain committed to continuing our strong partnership with detroit as it works to recover and revitalize and maintain its status as one of america s great cities. judge, i guess there are a number of cities in this position and when any city is spending $100 million more than it takes in every year for year
more importantly, it s resulted in services that are not good, nor a appropriate for the city detroit. the response time for police in the city of detroit is 58 minutes. the national time is 11 minutes. i respect the citizens of detroit and they deserve a better answer. that s the governor of michigan, rick snyder today on our show. just some stats of what the wall street journal calls a long, sad decline, population fell from 700,000 down 26%. an estimated 40,000 structures or land parcels sit vacant or empty in detroit. the city spent $100 million more than it took in every year since 2008 on average, borrowing the rest. some 36% of detroiters live below the poverty level, between 2007 and 2011, according to the