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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.
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A woman who allegedly assaulted her young son and mother has been fatally shot inside a Detroit home as she struggled with an officer over a gun.
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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.
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Justly Johnson and Kendrick Scott were convicted of the 1999 Mother’s Day murder of Lisa Kindred. The proposed settlements, which still need Detroit City Council approval, would pay each man $8.25 million.
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Detroit Will Breathe members sued the city over their treatment during protests in the summer of 2020. The city has now offered them over $1 million to resolve the lawsuit.
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We started the show with an update on the controversial ShotSpotter system that was passed last night by the Detroit City Council. Then we visited a cidery to learn about crafting hard ciders. To finish up our mid-week show, we talked about General Motors CEO Mary Barra.
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On today's show, we heard about the events that went down at the Michigan GOP convention over the weekend. Two educators dished on their new book. A report from Interlochen Public Radio looked into bad behaving tourists. Then, Michigan Radio reporter Briana Rice gave an update on a mass shooter in Detroit.
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The Detroit-based Coalition for Police Transparency and Accountability called for federal monitoring of the DPD in a memo to the Justice Department.
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All full-time Detroit police officers, as well as police assistants, will be getting a bonus from the City of Detroit.
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“People are buying more guns, so there’s more opportunity for guns to be stolen, more opportunities for guns to fall in the wrong hands, more opportunities for people to use guns to resolve some disputes,” Detroit Police Chief James White said, attributing increased enforcement of gun violations to a series of issues.