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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]
Like other Detroit street gangs, such as their Westside Detroit counterparts in the late 1970s; the Nasty Flynns (later the NF Bangers), and 7 Mile Killers or 7 Mile Dogs or the drug consortiums of the 1980s such as Young Boys Inc., Pony Down, Best Friends, Black Mafia Family and the Chambers Brothers, the Errol Flynns grew out of the racial and economic unrest that transformed Detroit in the ...
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. [1] The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end.
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 ...
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 African American residents and the Detroit Police Department , it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23 ...
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 ...
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.
Detroit officials must take action on dangerous driving In July of 2021, I was the victim of a reckless driver who smashed into my car at 55 mph as I was turning into my driveway on Lakewood ...