Desmond Burks pleaded guilty this week to second-degree murder in the killing of Detroit neurosurgeon Dr. Devon Hoover, abruptly ending a case that had been moving toward a lengthy jury trial. The plea came just two days into jury selection, cutting short proceedings that were expected to last several weeks and bringing resolution to a […]

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Detroit ended 2026 with fewer people killed than it’s seen in decades: 165 homicides.

That number carries an enormous amount of grief. But it is also a sharp turn from where the city was just a few years ago, when violence rose alongside deep disruption, loss, and instability wrought by the pandemic.

Whenever numbers like this drop, there is a rush to explain them, to credit a program, a policy, or personality.

But behind the statistics are hushed forces: housing stability, courtrooms, community trust, the slow work of keeping people from falling through cracks most of us never see.

Detroit Justice Center has been working for years in the background of Detroit’s public safety story, often far from patrol cars and police tape. Executive director Nancy A. Parker joined The Metro’s Robyn Vincent to discuss how this work has helped lower Detroit’s crime rate and what it means to repair a system from the inside.

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Wayne County Commissioner Jonathan Kinloch, a longtime political activist and Detroit Democrat, never served a 30-day jail sentence after getting busted for his third drunk driving in a little over three years in 2003, Metro Times has learned. Records show that a judge and the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office mishandled Kinloch’s sentencing, allowing him to […]

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Tracy Carlisle had escaped a crime scene by crashing through a picture window. His own blood now left a trail from an address where two people already lay wounded. Carlisle went to the west side Detroit home of a jeweler to settle a $3,200 score, but he never even fired his pistol. Instead only the […]

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An 18-year-old Highland Park man was charged with homicide and a hate crime Monday in connection with the brutal death of a transgender woman whose body was found behind a laundromat in Detroit. Malique Javon Fails is accused of fatally assaulting Christina Hayes, 28, of Taylor, on June 21 before robbing her of cash and […]

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A former hotel manager has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Amerilodge Group CEO Asad Malik of sexually harassing and assaulting her during a company outing to a Justin Timberlake concert in Detroit earlier this year, and then retaliating against her when she reported the incident. Stephanie Starling, who managed the Courtyard Marriott in Bay City, […]

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A Detroit man says his ex-partner falsely accused him of molesting their daughter and alleges her powerful, politically connected family helped her get a felony charge dismissed for filing a false police report. The ex-partner, Taylor Clark, is the granddaughter of retired Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Hathaway, whose cousin Richard Hathaway is the chief […]

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