Most of its former industrial base is gone. It used to be a busy industrial center with factories and shipyards with local markets and commercial businesses to cater to all the workers who lived there.

Bad trade policies nationally, corrupt leadership in the city sealed its fate.

The city is ditching its police department entirely. That's the plan. They're letting the county take over all operations and liquidating the entire force that is there now. Local officers say it's a form of union smashing under the banner of fiscal sensibility.