Detroit Police Department

The dashboard has data going back to 2012. It shows the number of civilian complaints, the nature of those complaints, and demographic data.

The Detroit Free Press says Detroit police officers conducted mass surveillance of hundreds of people involved in protests for years. Detroit Police Chief James White says the department does not do that, and any officers involved in such activity will be held accountable.

A wrongfully convicted Detroiter will get $10 million for the six years he spent in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out.

Detroit Police say crime in the city dropped last year, with the fewest homicides the city has seen since the 1960s. But that number doesn’t account for population.

Detroit Police Chief James White told the city's Board of Police Commissioners last week that the department will begin releasing video footage of any police killings or shootings within 45 days.

Eighteen officers will be part of a centralized team that will respond to mental health crises across the city. The team will include nine behavioral specialists from Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network, who have backgrounds in social work, psychology, counseling and nursing.

Police officers can call supervisors to deploy the weapons. Detroit police say the weapons are tools to help officers resolve situations without using deadly force.

A Black police officer in Detroit has won a federal lawsuit in which alleged his fellow officers used excessive force and retaliated against him based on his race.

Chief White wants the officers and supervisor suspended without pay after he says officers shot and killed a 27-year-old woman who was in a mental health crisis last week.

Burks, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by police in October, after police say they were called to help him with a mental health crisis.