Lately, when District 7 resident Tonya Wells looks at her phone, a barrage of bad news about violent crimes in Detroit is one of the first things waiting for her.
“When I look at my phone and I see the first thing, somebody got shot. Somebody got held up. Somebody was killed at a gas station. Somebody was this, that, and the third,” Wells said. “…We have a right to feel secure and safe in our environments. We don’t have that.”
She’s far from the only Detroiter feeling this way…