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Detroit is getting ready to host the NFL draft a decade after going bankrupt
Mayor Mike Duggan said the draft will be "a chance to reintroduce Detroit to America" 10 years afte…
George Glover
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The death of a Jewish synagogue president outside her Detroit home was a 'brutal murder,' Michigan's attorney general says
The head of a Detroit synagogue was found dead in front of her home. Michigan's top prosecutor said…
Charles R. Davis
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Facial-recognition software fails to correctly identify people '96% of the time,' Detroit police chief says
Facial-recognition technology misidentifies criminal suspects 96% of the time, according to the Det…
Ben Gilbert
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An ex-police sergeant is accused of stealing multiple inmate debit cards and embezzling over $30,000
Authorities have accused Derek Michael Loranger of stealing 10 inmate ATM cards from a Detroit jail…
Taylor Ardrey
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Detroit police chief says officers specifically prepared in case Michigan shooting suspect's parents fled
Detroit Police Chief James White said his officers "weren't surprised" when Jennifer and James Crum…
Natalie Musumeci
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An Amish family had their horse and buggy stolen from a Walmart parking lot while they were shopping, police say
An Amish family in Michigan had their horse and buggy stolen from a Walmart parking lot, the police…
Joshua Zitser
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A Detroit firefighter's body was found a day after he saved 3 girls from drowning in a local river, report says
Sivad Johnson's body was found on Saturday after he jumped in the Detroit River to save the lives o…
Taylor Ardrey
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The Ottawa trucker protests over vaccine mandates is causing traffic delays on a major Detroit bridge
The Ambassador Bridge, which is the busiest international land border crossing in North America, ha…
Sophia Ankel
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A Black man in Detroit was arrested and detained for 30 hours after being falsely identified by facial recognition
Activists have objected to the use of facial recognition by law enforcement for years, as the techn…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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A 12-year-old boy drove a stolen forklift and led police on a low-speed chase around the suburbs for an hour
Police said they found the boy driving the forklift on Saturday evening and pursued "at speeds of 1…
Matthew Loh
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The long, troubled history of police and transgender communities
The police once raided gay bars and arrested transgender people for cross-dressing. Decades after S…
Narimes Parakul
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A Detroit woman who says she was falsely arrested while 8 months pregnant says she spent 11 hours on a concrete jail bench before being released. She says a bogus facial recognition match is to blame.
Police used facial recognition software, which often misidentifies Black people, to connect Porcha …
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black
Facial recognition software has always had trouble telling Black people apart, yet police departmen…
Katie Hawkinson
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A Detroit father was fatally shot by a man for letting a group of women enter an elevator first. His mother wants his assailant caught: 'My son was just being a gentleman'
"Turn yourself in. Turn yourself in, because you have hurt so many people," Rosalind Hearst said as…
Taylor Ardrey
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New York, Philadelphia, and Detroit mayors tell Trump not to send federal law-enforcement officers over protests
"There could be no possible justification for such an action," Mayor Mike Duggan and Police Chief J…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'
Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million time…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Video shows the moment a getaway car hits tree, bursts apart during 100-mph police chase through the desolate streets of Detroit
The Eastpointe Police Department was alerted about an alleged carjacking at 11 a.m. Wednesday morni…
Tim Levin
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Police allege a teacher wrote a bomb threat note to blow up the junior high school where he taught
Paul Jacobs, a teacher in Michigan, is facing charges accused of writing a fake note threatening to…
Isobel van Hagen
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A January 6 defendant goes on trial for the first time this week
The first trial stemming from the Capitol attack will test the Justice Department and give it a sta…
C. Ryan Barber
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An independent autopsy found Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of the head by a Michigan police officer
"This independent autopsy report confirms what we all witnessed in the horrifying video footage," s…