One in 4 girls and 1 in 20 boys in the United State experience childhood sexual abuse according to the Center for Disease Control. Huntington Place held the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse annual conference this week.

Elizabeth Clemants spoke at the conference. She is the founder and executive director of Hidden Water, a nonprofit that uses a restorative justice model to interrupt cycles of childhood sexual abuse within families.

Clemants says despite the misconception, child sexual abuse frequently occurs inside the home rather than through stranger-danger situations.

She adds that more often its young people in the home who cause harm. Those young people often don’t develop an attraction to children, but the impact on the child harmed can persist into adulthood.

Clemants says harm is often done by young people for a number of reasons.

“You know, their sexuality is turning on. It’s turning on younger. The accessibility of pornography and violence; lots of young people are being educated around sex in ways that we wouldn’t want. They might be being harmed themselves, and they’re not being guided,” Clemants says.

One of the biggest barriers to preventing harm is adults who don’t feel comfortable having the converstion around sexual abuse.

“If you mention child sexual abuse in any way, the minute we start talking about that, and someone has an image of that, they become overwhelmed emotionally, and then they turn away,” Clemants says.

“And if the kids are crossing boundaries, and they’re accustomed to having someone talk about that out loud, then they’re accustomed to talking about it out loud themselves.”

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Detroit voters created a board of civilian commissioners in 1974 with the power to investigate their own police department. Eleven members. Its own staff of investigators.

Since May, those investigators can no longer pull body camera video themselves. The cops can edit the footage and decide what’s relevant. 

Victoria Camille represents District Seven on the oversight board. She’s circulating a petition to get that access back. And Thursday afternoon, she was prepared to vote on whether Detroiters can still speak to her board from home.

Commissioner Camille spoke with The Metro‘s Robyn Vincent about what the police oversight board can actually do to hold cops accountable and whether some of its power has weakened.

Editor’s Note: After this segment aired, the motion to limit public comment options to solely in-person attendees was rescinded. 

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The FBI put out its 2025 crime numbers this month, and they show the largest year-to-year decline in violent crime rates since estimations began in 1936. Robbery fell 18.5%. Murder dropped by 18 percent — that rate is now tied with 1955 for the lowest ever recorded in this country.

Detroit is part of that trend. The city ended last year with the lowest number of homicides since 1965. Carjackings dropped 46 percent.

What nobody fully agrees on is why. Detroit police credit a mix of strategies: More officers, a different approach to mental health calls, and community violence intervention — those are programs staffed by people from the neighborhoods where the shooting happens.

Andy Arena spent 24 years in the FBI and ran its Detroit division. He now leads the Detroit Crime Commission. He spoke about why violent crime is declining with host Robyn Vincent.

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