Detroit is known for many things. Unfortunately the one thing Detroit is not known for is its schools. Detroit Public Schools, or D.P.S. is currently in the middle of one of its biggest crises. Almost $500 million in debt, it’s hard to imagine the kind of change needed to straighten out its current financial woes. It doesn’t help that over the years, millions upon millions of dollars have been siphoned from D.P.S.’s yearly operating budgets. Just across town there is a building that contains the remnants of a careless and apathetic administration. School supplies and records lie scattered about and haphazardly destroyed.

Detroit’s city hall has been notorious for corruption, even from its early days. Not even during the Coleman administration did corruption rival that of the current times. Outlined inside are the corrupt politicians and contractors, and the countless scandals they are involved in. While corruption of the past consisted mostly of skimming funds and inside deals, today’s corruption includes secret settlements designed to cover up the mayor’s affairs, murder investigations put to a stop to protect top brass, multiple whistle blower lawsuits, police officers fired for investigating corruption, shady city contracts, perjury, obstructions of justice, conspiracy and much, much more. Spiraling out of control, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick insists on holding his job as mayor, likely because he will loose his power to rule the city like a king... and most of his family will be out of work too. It is clear he is going down with the sinking ship. City Hall is no longer city hall, it is now known as the Detroit Department of Corruption.

Left vacant for any good length of time, a house or building in Detroit stands little to no chance when it comes to the scrap army. Like locust to a field, the copper thieves in this city are leaving homes, businesses, churches and even schools without power for days or weeks. In some cases the damage done was unrepairable and the structure structure was simply left to the elements and the criminals. The epidemic of copper theft is even grabbing the attention of the federal government. So…what are we doing about it?

In the process of attempting to improve the city, Kwame Kilpatrick has taken two steps back for every step forward. Have you looked around the city and been witness to piles of garbage? Have you ever called police only to have no one respond? Have you seen all the abandoned buildings and wondered why they are there? There is now a very real chance that many of the city's finical problems stem from the repercussions of the Mayor's conduct. That is because every time the budget is balanced, the city keeps taking massive financial hits caused by Kilpatrick’s immaturity.

Kilpatrick bleeds money day after day from money paid out to settle lawsuits from unjustified business expenses, and spending money that does not belong to him. It’s now too late for the city; Kilpatrick's scandalous ways have drained the city treasury and replaced prosperity with a long lasting black eye.