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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

Many Detroiters were shocked and appalled last Thursday when, during a community meeting, city officials and the Detroit Police Department set up cardboard tombstones as a promotional stunt to generate support for the proposed expansion of the ShotSpotter program. Every Detroiter deserves to feel safe...

As the only provider of city-scale gunshot detection systems in the United States, ShotSpotter effectively has a monopoly on the market.

An entitled letter from Detroit’s suburbs

Yes, we are metro Detroit, but Detroit hustles harder

By Lee DeVito
Sep 1, 2022
Opinion: The Michigan GOP is too extreme to govern

I am a former Republican state representative, and I am distraught by what has happened to my party

By Susan Tabor
Aug 31, 2022
Opinion: I’m a former Republican. What happened to Michigan’s GOP?

The Michigan Republican Party has devolved into conspiracies

By Reavis Graham
Aug 18, 2022
Libraries like Detroit’s need our support now, more than ever

As Detroit Public Library gradually opens branches for the first time since March 2020, it’s important that we support them

By Monica Williams
Aug 10, 2022
Motor City Pride was my first out of the closet — and a reminder of what Pride really means

These celebrations are about more than corporations and cops donning rainbow logos

By Marc Klockow
Jun 14, 2022
Michigan leaders must confront digital redlining

It takes private investment and responsible corporate action to ensure that all Americans have access to high-speed internet

By Rev. Lafayette Price, Ph.D.
May 26, 2022
Opinion: EGLE must make Stellantis pay

By George D. Gaines and Linda S. Campbell
Jan 26, 2022
Michigan universities get funding to sequence COVID, other infectious diseases

By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
Jan 10, 2022
An urgent call for public health and lawmakers on incarceration amid omicron surges

By Ira Memaj and Robert Fullilove
Jan 8, 2022
How magic mushrooms could become Michigan’s next frontier — and why it matters

By Jerilyn Jordan
Dec 22, 2021
Opinion: Duggan continues his destructive path of demolition and underdevelopment

By Paul Jones III
Dec 14, 2021
Project Censored’s top 10 stories show old patterns alive and well

By Paul Rosenberg
Dec 1, 2021
Project Censored to release ‘State of the Free Press 2022’

By Terelle Jerricks
Dec 1, 2021
Opinion: Hamtramck city attorney comments about disabled man is example of systemic ableism

By Dessa Cosma
Oct 11, 2021
Detroit police did nothing as neo-Nazis shoved me to the ground. James Craig should never be governor.

By Metro Times readers
Sep 10, 2021
Majority Black Detroit left behind as economic recovery benefits white and wealthy

By Equitable Detroit Coalition and Detroit People’s Platform
May 25, 2021
On Mitch Albom’s misguided argument against the anti-police brutality movement

By Ryan Herberholz
Apr 21, 2021
Rep. Manoogian: Time to push the For the People Act over the finish line

By Mari Manoogian
Apr 9, 2021
Opinion: VP MI State Board of Ed: Before children go back to school, leaders must acknowledge COVID-19's disparate impact on BIPOC

By Dr. Pamela Pugh
Jan 29, 2021
Detroit: canary in democracy’s coal mine?

By Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky and Tim Stallmann
Nov 25, 2020

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