Is Detroit a good backdrop for a zombie movie?

I had a conversation with a friend of mine last night who asked why I still lived in The City of Detroit when I could afford to live in any of her suburbs. Me being the King of Analogies (which includes hyperbole, similes, double entendres and sexual innuendos as well), I likened the crime experience to a zombie movie.

Like criminal activity, the zombies start low in numbers as the populous exits the inner city. As the disease of the undead continues to spread, there is always a scene of a "posse" encamped on a bridge picking off the zombies as they funnel across the waterway.

What often escaped the defenders of humanity, just as it escapes those who choose to exit their home to flee the plague of crime that pursues them, is that the zombie and the criminal is not subjected to the same rules that they follow.

Case in point: while the stalwarts are guarding the bridge, they forget that zombies are dead and therefore no longer breath and can therefore walk across the floor of the waterway to infiltrate what is being defended. Criminals don't follow the rules either. As the population shifts to safer accommodations, the criminal element shifts with them as they follow what they perceive to be wealth.

Until someone is brave enough to attack the source of the malady, to stand and fight against what seems to be overwhelming odds, evil will win. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, "In order for evil to succeed, all it takes is for good men to do nothing."

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