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Blood or pizza sauce? Charlie LeDuff’s version of 2009 arrest contradicted by police report

Last month’s incident wasn’t the first time the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist was accused of domestic violence

By Steve Neavling
Jan 10, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Media, Charlie LeDuff, domestic violence, police, Oakland County District Court, Detroit: An American Autopsy, journalism, reporter, Pleasant Ridge
Metro Detroit

Detroit cop who knocked elderly man unconscious was combative and failed to render first aid, witness says

The witness painted a different picture of the encounter compared to the official police account

By Steve Neavling
Sep 7, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Crime, Garden Bowl, Detroit, Midtown, Detroit Police Department, police, assault, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners
Michigan

Arrest and surveillance of Detroit activist raises questions about police conduct

Peatmoss is accused of defacing a controversial statue of General Custer in Monroe

By Steve Neavling
Aug 24, 2023

Tags: Michigan News, News, Crime, General George Armstrong Cluster, protest, police, Monroe, Cop City, surveillance, GPS tackers, Detroit
Metro Detroit

Ex-Detroit cop charged with kidnapping and raping a relative

A manhunt for the retired sergeant ended with his capture out of state

By Steve Neavling
Aug 18, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Crime, Detroit Police Department, police, Detroit, sergeant, rape, criminal sexual conduct, incest, Romulus, James Everett Sharpe Jr.
Metro Detroit

Alarming racial disparity found in Ferndale arrests and traffic tickets – again

An advocacy group is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate ‘predatory policing’ in the suburb

By Steve Neavling
Aug 17, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Council on American-Islamic Relations, racial profiling, Ferndale, Detroit, 8 Mile, Muslims, traffic stops, police, racism
Metro Detroit

Elderly vet sues Madison Heights police for brutal attack after he offered children ice cream

The 74-year-old man’s injuries were so severe that he had to have surgery

By Steve Neavling
Aug 15, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Civil rights lawsuit, lawsuit, Jon Marko, Madison Heights, Madison Heights Police Department, police, police brutality, Fourth Amendment
Metro Detroit

Detroit police arrest pregnant Black woman after false facial recognition match

The faulty Project Green Light surveillance network has led to at least three false arrests

By Steve Neavling
Aug 7, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Porcha Woodruff, Detroit, Detroit Police Department, facial recognition technology, racism, police, lawsuit, U.S. District Court
Metro Detroit

Livonia police criticized for response to racist attack on Black teen

An adult severely assaulted a 13-year-old Black child while yelling racial slurs

By Steve Neavling
Jun 27, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Livonia, Livonia Police Department, Assault, racism, Facebook, social media, police
Michigan

‘People hate me,’ MSU shooter wrote in letter released by police

A sexually frustrated ‘outcast,’ Anthony McRae complained that no one liked him

By Steve Neavling
Mar 10, 2023

Tags: Michigan News, News, Anthony McRae, Michigan State University, guns, mass shooting, police
Michigan

Michigan cops accused of ‘horrific’ sexual harassment, discrimination of female officer

Two cops bet on who would have sex with the officer first, the suit alleges

By Steve Neavling
Feb 21, 2023

Tags: Michigan News, News, Upper Peninsula, Iron Mountain, Jack Schulz, sexual harassment, discrimination, gender bias, Teresa Williams, lawsuit, U.S. District Court, police
Cannabis News

Black market bust seizes more than 5,400 cannabis plants in northern Michigan

Illegal grows are still thriving and contributing to plummeting profits at dispensaries

By Steve Neavling
Feb 17, 2023

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, Marijuana, black market, Michigan State Police, Ogemaw County, Richmond Township, Northern Michigan, police
Michigan

Black lawmakers call on Michigan Legislature to revive police reform bills after Tyre Nichols’s death

Now in control, Democrats plan to reintroduce efforts to curb police brutality

By Steve Neavling
Jan 31, 2023

Tags: Michigan News, News, Police brutality, racism, Michigan Legislative Black Caucus, State House, State Senate, police reform, police, Lansing
Michigan

Police shot and killed 135 people in Michigan since 2015

Black residents are killed at a disproportionately high rate, and cops are rarely charged

By Steve Neavling
Dec 16, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, News, Police, Detroit Police Department, Michigan State Police, michigan, fatal shootings, guns
Metro Detroit

Prosecutor won’t charge Detroit cops who shot Porter Burks 19 times

Burks was experiencing a mental health crisis when he lunged at police with a knife

By Steve Neavling
Nov 23, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Detroit police, police, shooting, mental health, Wayne County Prosecutor, Kym Worthy, Chief White
Michigan

Program aims to prevent suicides among Michigan first responders

There is a stigma among many police, firefighters, and other first responders against seeking help

By Mark Richardson, Michigan News Connection
Nov 15, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Health Care, Michigan, firefighters, police, first responders, suicide
Metro Detroit

Farmington Hills police brutalized innocent Black man in front of his children, lawsuit alleges

The suit was filed several months after the revelation that Farmington Hills police were using images of Black people for target practice

By Steve Neavling
Oct 24, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Farmington Hills, police, Black Lives Matter, police brutality, racism
Metro Detroit

Detroit to pay more than $1M over police brutality lawsuit after bloody summer of protests

Protesters were beaten and pepper-sprayed during demonstrations over the death of George Floyd

By Steve Neavling
Oct 13, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit Will Breathe, police brutality, lawsuit, Jack Schulz, Detroit police, police, Detroit
Politics & Elections

Whitmer gains major police endorsement despite Dixon’s tough-on-crime rhetoric

Dixon’s budget plan would wipe out police funding

By Steve Neavling
Oct 12, 2022

Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Gov. Whitmer, Michigan, Tudor Dixon, Democrat, election, politics, Michigan Association of Police Organizations, police, budget
Metro Detroit

Opinion: ShotSpotter profits off fears of gun violence

Every Detroiter deserves to feel safe. But this charade of security theater is not the way to do it.

By Rebecca Smith
Sep 25, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Views & Opinions, ShotSpotter, Detroit, police, crime, guns
Metro Detroit

ShotSpotter surveillance tech sought by Detroit police is unreliable, invasive, and discriminatory, critics say

Detroit wants to use COVID-19 relief funds on a controversial gunshot detection system

By Steve Neavling
Sep 23, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Detroit police, shotspotter, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, Tristan Taylor, Kamau Clark, racism, police