The Black Mafia Family

Detroit in the 1980’s was a dangerous and volatile place. In 1985, 636 murders gave it the highest murder rate in the nation’s largest cities, almost twice that of Chicago. By the end of 1986, the number had increased by 10 more than the previous year, among them, the deaths of 43 children under the age of 16. The violence which started climbing in the early 1980s, created an anger across Detroit, with blame pointed at the flight of middle class white and black residents moving out to the suburbs, leaving no stabilising forces to fight for the city or offer role models to younger, poorer youths. Police and court officials say the rise of crime was due to the volatile mix of no jobs, poverty, guns and drugs. 2 men who rose from the crime ridden streets of Detroit were Demetrius ‘Big Meech’ Flenory and Terry ‘Southwest T’ Flenory