Results from a fresh survey of 400 Detroit voters confirm wide-angle anger.
Detroiters . . . are sharply critical of the performance of state and local elected officials and worried about the future of Michigan’s largest city, but they reserve their deepest disdain for the dismal condition of public services, according to a new Free Press/WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) poll. . . .
The numbers reflect a city in deep crisis, with much uncertainty surrounding how, and whether, it will recover.
An overwhelming majority of those polled rate basic city services as fair or poor. [Photo by Flickr user 'friday1970']
Matt Helms and Joe Guillen present these findings from a "mood of the city" survey:
Mayor Dave Bing and Gov. Rick Snyder are held in equal disregard, with 80% of Detroit voters giving both men negative assessments of just fair or poor, the poll found. But their disapproval ratings were topped by the City Council, which scored 89% negative by voters in the poll.
Faring the worst: city services. A full 90% of respondents said the city’s basic public services — police and fire, transportation, trash pickup and the like — are just fair or poor.
Respondents also give views on the governor's appointment of emergency manager Kevyn Orr and their sense of whether city services will be better when his 18-month turnaround term ends.
Likely voters were questioned May 18-20 by a Lansing form, EPIC-MRA. Results have a sampling error margin of 4.9 percentage points.
