Detroit crime

June is national Gun Violence Awareness Month, and people from across metro Detroit kicked it off with a “Wear Orange” rally in front of the Spirit of…

Detroit leaders say violent crime is trending downward in the city, a fact Mayor Mike Duggan and law enforcement officials touted Thursday as they…

Heather Ann Thompson has been in the news recently because of the success of her new book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its…

Turn on the TV news in metro Detroit, and you're bound to catch the latest story about a shooting, a stabbing, or some other tragic story about another…

In what officials call an effort towards greater transparency, the city of Detroit launched a website that offers access to many government documents that…

Detroit may have wrapped up 2014 with the fewest number of homicides in decades.The end-of-year crime data is still preliminary.But Detroit police…

Ring in the New Year with a bell, not a bang.That’s the message of a campaign to discourage Detroit’s unofficial tradition of celebratory New Year’s…

Violent and property crime in Detroit dropped 25% in the first quarter of this year. However, Carl Taylor, a sociology professor at Michigan State…

For the past year, for the first time in decades, people in the suburbs, in Lansing, and across America are thinking about Detroit.Everybody has had to…

By now, millions know the story.Thirteen days ago, on the east side of Detroit, a ten-year-old boy darted in front of a truck driven by a middle-aged tree…