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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]
Detroit had the 2nd highest violent crime rate in the nation in 2015 among cities with a population greater than 50,000. [3] In 2013, with only 7% of the state population, the city of Detroit had 50% of all murders recorded in Michigan. [4] Detroit recorded 295 homicides in 2015 down from the recent high of 386 in 2012. [5]
Detroit (/ d ɪ ˈ t r ɔɪ t / ⓘ dih-TROYT, locally also / ˈ d iː t r ɔɪ t / DEE-troyt) [8] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the largest U.S. city on the Canadian border and the county seat of Wayne County. Detroit had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, [9] making it the 26th-most populous city in ...
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. Law firm: Michigan's 'most dangerous' intersections are mostly in metro Detroit ...
I’m writing in response to a letter in last week’s opinion page from an out-of-state transplant now living in East Lansing. ("Michigan is the least friendly state," Detroit Free Press, Sept ...
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.
Riots in Detroit, Michigan, have occurred since the city was founded in 1701. This area was settled by various ethnicities following thousands of years of indigenous history. During the colonial period, it was nominally ruled by France and Great Britain before the border was set in the early 19th century and it became part of the United States.