• If you're a Detroiter who needs a police officer, it will take 58 minutes to get help -- more than five times what it takes elsewhere in the United States.


• if you're walking around the city, it might make sense to bring a flashlight -- about 40% of the 88,000 street lights don't work


• 40-year-old trees growing through the roofs of dilapidated houses


• [Emergency Manager] Orr said the city had filed for bankruptcy because it would take more than 50 years to pay off the city's $11.5 billion in unsecured debt while not conducting even the most basic maintenance, such as filling potholes and plowing snow


• The police department closes only 8.7% of its criminal cases, which the filing blames on the department's "lack of a case management system, lack of accountability for detectives, unfavorable work rules imposed by collective bargaining agreements and a high attrition rate in the investigative operations unit."


• The city's violent crime rate is five times the national average, and the highest of any city with a population exceeding 200,000


• 70 Superfund hazardous waste sites


• A city-owned power plant that has been idle for two years at least

The governor added, "There are extremely good things going on in Detroit, outside of city government."