Editing Coleman Young (section)

===Crime===
Though there were no civil disturbances as serious as the race riots of [[Detroit Race Riot (1863)|1863]], [[Detroit Race Riot (1943)|1943]], and [[1967 Detroit riot|1967]]  during Young's terms as mayor, he has been blamed for failing to stem crime in the city.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} Several violent gangs controlled the region's drug trade in the 1970s and 1980s. Major criminal gangs that were founded in Detroit and dominated the drug trade at various times included The [[Errol Flynns]] (east side), Nasty Flynns (later the NF Bangers) and Black Killers and the drug consortiums of the 1980s such as [[Young Boys Inc.]], Pony Down, Best Friends, [[Black Mafia Family]] and the [[Chambers Brothers (gang)|Chambers Brothers]].{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

From 1965 onward, Detroit had experienced an upwards trajectory of its homicide rate. In 1974, the year Young took office, the homicide rate in Detroit was slightly above 50 per 100,000 residents. Over the rest of the 1970s, Detroit's homicide rate trended downward, dropping below 40 homicides per 100,000 in 1977 and 1979. However, in the 1980s the homicide rate significantly increased, reaching a peak of 63.5 in 1987. In 1994, the year Young retired from office, the homicide rate was roughly 54 per 100,000.<ref name=damron>{{cite news| title=Detroit's homicide rate nears highest in 2 decades| url=http://www.freep.com/article/20121228/NEWS01/312280175/Detroit-s-homicide-rate-nears-highest-in-2-decades| work=[[Detroit Free Press]]| first=Gina| last=Damron| date=December 28, 2012| access-date=July 15, 2014| archive-date=November 9, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109153319/http://www.freep.com/article/20121228/NEWS01/312280175/Detroit-s-homicide-rate-nears-highest-in-2-decades| url-status=dead}}</ref>