"At first glance, the streets along Detroit's northeast corner don't appear to be the city's most dangerous.
On a recent sunny afternoon, teenagers played basketball on a new court while younger children chased an ice-cream truck. An elderly woman sat on the porch of her well-kept brick bungalow and watched two boys toss a football.
But across the street, the dead were honored with memorials on utility poles. Some featured stuffed animals, others consisted of dozens of liquor bottles. Farther down Novara Street, one of several burned-out homes bore a message in spray-paint: "R.I.P Vees."
"It's not too bad around here during the day," resident Richard Evans said. "At night, though, it gets pretty crazy. … If you see trouble starting, get in the house quick"...........READ MORE
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