Finally the ugly truth is coming out. Isn't it about time?

More than 800 people were shot in Detroit in the first six months of this year, a 70 percent jump in gun violence that experts and police blame on a variety of factors, from upheaval and scarce resources in the police department to high unemployment rates among young males and a hip-hop culture that condones gunfire to solve disputes.

I read the Detroit papers almost daily online. I never watch the local news it just doesn't fit my schedule. On the back pages on most days you'll find "Three Shot Down", "Gun Battle Kills Two", but never an article that's putting the tallies together. No running scoreboard for the public like Iraq. If you live in this area there is no doubt you have this cold pit in your stomach, that nagging fear in the back of your mind that things are consistently changing. Changing fast and not for the better.

Of course "the experts" are putting the blame on the police, unemployment rates, and last but not least entertainment artists. After all we don't want to look at the parents of these lowlife fools for not teaching them any morals, ethics or simple respect for your fellow man. Let's just let them continue to breed more corrupt offspring to follow in their footprints.

I've been saying for a few years now this area is "different". Something is so very wrong here. I can't understand the press in not pulling the whole picture together before today and saying "What the hell is happening?" or "What do we need to do about this?". The acceptance of declining morals and values in this city blows my mind. Why isn't anyone pointing the finger and placing the blame on the people pulling the triggers?

I don't have any answers or any solutions but I do know ignoring and blaming others for a cancerous growth doesn't make it go away and it will eventually metastasize. I've never understood why Detroit is in such denial. Can someone bring in a team of surgeons please? This place needs help.