Pretty bad end-of-summer for Detroit. And in general crime news, with the end of summer comes
a switch-over to a focus on solving unsolved homicides and looking for possible wrongful convictions.
Quote:
With warm weather waning and detectives poring over old murder cases to look at possible wrongful convictions, Detroit police officials have redeployed officers to the department's Homicide Section to help investigate killings.
Six detectives and one sergeant were added to the Detroit Police Department's Homicide section this week, and a new City Wide Support Squad was formed, Chief James Craig said Wednesday.
"We had upped our deployment at parks, and we also had added manpower downtown to address some concerns there," he said. "But now that we're moving from the warmer months, we're reallocating some of those officers to homicide. This is something we do all the time.
"We had talked about increasing the number of homicide investigators because we added an inactive case unit to work with the Innocence Clinic (to look at old cases for possible wrongful convictions)," Craig said.
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Detroit (as of 9/26/18):
2018: 197
2017: 208
-11 (-5.2%)
I'd use the city's data portal to fnd the 2016, but since they switched over systems in December of 2016, it's impossible and useless to try. Whatever the exact number, it was higher than 2017 and 2018. Anyway, with the FBI numbers released for 2017, the city's drop in homcides placed it rate per 100,000 third nationally for big cities (40/100,000), now significantly behind St. Louis (66/100,000) and Baltimore (56/100,000).