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The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967". [3] Composed mainly of confrontations between black residents and the Detroit Police Department , it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967, in ...
As of 2001, the Hazelwood massacre remained the worst mass killing in Detroit's history. [16] In 1990, five people were fatally shot, and another critically injured, at a reputed crack house in northeast Detroit. It was the worst mass murder in Detroit since the Hazelwood massacre. [17] No one has ever been arrested, and the case remains open ...
The 1968 Detroit riot was a civil disturbance that occurred between April 4–5, 1968 in Detroit, Michigan following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Less than a year after the violent unrest of 1967, areas of 12th Street (present-day Rosa Parks Boulevard) again erupted in chaos (simultaneously with over 100 other US cities) following King's assassination.
As of 2018 Detroit had the fourth highest murder rate among major cities in the United States after St. Louis and Baltimore and the 42nd highest murder rate in the world. [1] [2] The rate of robberies in Detroit declined by 67% between 1985 and 2014 while the rate of aggravated assaults increased. [3]
By RYAN GORMAN Detroit has been named the nation's most dangerous city for the second year in a row, according to a study of FBI crime statistics. Motor City beat out Oakland, California, and ...
Eighteen of the 20 intersections with the most crashes, according to Michigan Auto Law, are in southeast Michigan.
The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system.
Detroit’s challenges are complex and rooted in its Rust Belt history. Once the global center of the automotive industry, Detroit was the fourth-largest city in the U.S. in the 1920s. Its ...