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Community members rallied Saturday, calling on Detroit Police to improve how it responds to mental health crises.
The Detroit Police Department is trying to fill 300 vacancies while keeping the officers they do have, and they plan to do it by increasing pay. Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit police Chief James White, and union leaders made the announcement Friday morning.
Detroit police are on the hunt for a man who shot point blank at one of its officers and then proceeded to carjack a mom that had just arrived home with her children.
Nonprofits and activists say this turnout demonstrates the grassroots effort that’s vital for lasting change.
As the war in Ukraine drags on, Detroit police and the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department are doing something to help. Both departments have teamed up with other agencies in Wayne County to send dozens of retired Special Response Team bulletproof vests to those who need them in Ukraine.
Unfortunately, Chief James White has had to use a phrase too often in recent weeks. In this case, it refers to a 3-year-old boy shot at the Martin Luther King Apartments on East Lafayette Friday, Jan. 14.
Police said the person of interest in a deadly shooting of a Detroit woman and her teenage daughter was shot and killed by police on Tuesday.
Police say a person of interest in a deadly shooting of a Detroit mother and her teenage daughter has been shot and killed by police.
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Police were on patrol Thursday near Birwood Street and Cambridge Avenue in Detroit conducting what Chief James White describes as a firearms investigation.
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