Stories about Hamtramck, the country's first majority Muslim city with a Muslim majority city council, talk up its "diversity". They claim that Muslim migrants to this country were attracted by low crime and cheap property values. But crime rates in this Muslim majority city these days are pretty bad and it's the seventh most dangerous city in Michigan.
According to a ranking of 186 Michigan cities, Hamtramck has the seventh worst crime rate. In 2013, Hamtramck, with a population listed as 22,017, experienced 366 violent crimes, 159 robberies, 191 assaults, 814 property crimes, 244 break-ins, 334 thefts and 236 car thefts, and a number of other crime categories.
That year, its murder rate hit 13.6, putting it in the top murder rates in America. It's small enough that it can't really be compared to Detroit, but there has been a clear rise in crime. While property crimes seem to have fallen, murder and rape have increased.
There's no way to know whether this can be attributed to the shifting population changes, but it certainly suggests that Hamtramck is a long way from the multicultural utopia the media would like to depict it as.