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Detroit cop charged with sending inappropriate messages to 12-year-old girl

The officer now faces up to four years in prison after the girl’s father went public

By Steve Neavling
Mar 4, 2025

Tags: Metro Detroit, Crime, Police, Detroit Police Department, Warren, Warren Police Department, Peter Lucido, Macomb County Prosecutor's Office, Todd Bettison, text messages
Metro Detroit

Protesters accuse Prosecutor Worthy of stalling on wrongful convictions

Retired Detroit Detective Barbara Simon is accused of coercing false confessions, unlawfully detaining suspects, and committing perjury

By Steve Neavling
Nov 20, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Civil Rights, Crime, Mark Craighead, Lamarr Monson, Barbara Simon, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy, exonerations in metro Detroit, Detroit Police Department
Metro Detroit

Opinion: In 2024, Detroit’s ‘dangerous’ reputation is inaccurate and outdated

The politics of justice has to be about solutions, not fear

By Kandia Milton, Director of Government Affairs at Dream.org and Brian Tashman, Deputy Director of Vera Action
Nov 1, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Views & Opinions, 2024 Election, Detroit Police Department, Mike Duggan, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump
Metro Detroit

Prosecutor Worthy requests funds to investigate cases handled by detective featured in Metro Times series

The Detroit Board of Police Commissioners is also pledging take action against former Detective Barbara Simon, who is accused of using deceptive tactics to elicit false confessions

By Steve Neavling
Sep 6, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Police, Barbara Simon, Mark Craighead, Prosecutor Kym Worthy, Wayne County, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Detroit Police Department, Warren Evans
Metro Detroit

Protest to target Wayne County prosecutor over wrongful convictions featured in Metro Times

A retired Detroit detective traumatized suspects and witnesses for nearly 20 years

By Steve Neavling
Aug 27, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Police, Wayne County Prosecutor, Kym Worthy, Detroit, Detroit Police Department, Barbara Simon, Mark Craighead, exonerations, detective, protest, rally
Michigan Music

A bad rap: Why so many Detroit hip-hop shows get canceled

On Detroit hip-hop’s complicated relationships with police and the music business — and what can be done to improve them

By Kahn Santori Davison
Aug 14, 2024

Tags: Michigan Music, Longform, Police, Skilla Baby, Detroit hip-hop, The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre, Detroit Police Department, Detroit rap, Cover Story
Metro Detroit

Duane Williams seeks exoneration as wrongful conviction cases mount in Wayne County

“You would think that you get out of jail and it’s a party from then on, but that’s when you have your problems,” he says

By Eddie B. Allen Jr.
Aug 12, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Police, Government, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy, Detroit Police Department, wrongful convictions in metro Detroit
Metro Detroit

Pressure mounts on Wayne County prosecutor to investigate misconduct cases featured in Metro Times

Detroit police pledge to work with Prosecutor Worthy, but she balks at taking action

By Steve Neavling
Aug 7, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Police, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, Kym Worthy, Detroit, Detroit Police Department, exonerations, Mark Craighead
Metro Detroit

Metro Times two-part series on Detroit detective featured on popular podcast ML Soul of Detroit

Mark Craighead, who was exonerated of murder in 2022, shares what it’s like to be imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit

By Steve Neavling
Aug 6, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Media, News, Mark Craighead, Metro Times, investigation, M.L. Elrick, journalism, podcast, ML Soul of Detroit, Barbara Simion, Detroit Police Department, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office
Metro Detroit

Activists call for a review of all cases tied to a Detroit detective who terrorized young men to get false confessions

The Closer: Part II

By Steve Neavling
Jul 31, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Police, Longform, Detroit Police Department, Barbara Simon, wrongful convictions in Michigan, Kym Worthy, Wayne County Prosecutor, Cover Story
Metro Detroit

A Detroit detective terrorized young men into making false confessions. Some are still behind bars.

The Closer: Part I

By Steve Neavling
Jul 24, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Longform, Police, Detroit Police Department, Barbara Simon, wrongful convictions in Michigan, Kym Worthy, Wayne County Prosecutor, Cover Story
Metro Detroit

Opinion: Detroit police struggle to adjust to legalized weed

Michigan voters legalized cannabis in 2018. The Detroit Police Department is having a hard time accepting the new normal.

By Robert Frommer and Daryl James
Jun 5, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Views & Opinions, Weed, Detroit Police Department, Michigan cannabis laws, civil forfeiture in Michigan
Metro Detroit

Detroit councilwoman threatens to subpoena police chief after cop told protester to ‘go back to Mexico’

Councilwoman Mary Waters says she’s worried about a ‘disturbing, systemic pattern of racist, xenophobic police conduct’

By Steve Neavling
May 21, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Detroit, Detroit City Council, subpoena, Mary Waters, Detroit Police Department, racism, xenophobia, Chief White, protests, Palestine, Slideshow
Metro Detroit

Two Detroit cops used excessive force when they killed a Black man in 2018, jury finds

The fatal shooting prompted the police union to award the cops as “District Officers of the Year”

By Steve Neavling
Mar 18, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Lamont Johnson, Tyler Nagy, Raul Martinez, lawsuit, police brutality, lawsuit, shooting, Detroit, Detroit Police Department, excessive force
Metro Detroit

DPD defends controversial ShotSpotter system after leak reveals Detroit locations

The department says the gunshot sensors don’t target communities of color, but a document shows clusters of them on the east and west sides of the city

By Lee DeVito
Mar 1, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Civil Rights, Crime, Government, ShotSpotter, Project Green Light, Detroit Police Department
Metro Detroit

Lapointe: In the Samantha Woll murder case, city uneasy despite arrest

“Random,” in some ways, is scarier than a real motive

By Joe Lapointe
Dec 15, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit, Crime, Lapointe, News, Views & Opinions, Samantha Woll, Detroit Police Department, Kym Worthy, Michael Manuel Jackson-Bolanos, Lafayette Park, Detroit crime
Michigan

Officer shortage puts pressure on Michigan police departments to hire ‘wandering cops’

A staffing crisis has forced police departments into the uncomfortable position of contemplating lowering their standards, a scenario that worries activists and law enforcement experts

By Steve Neavling
Dec 13, 2023

Tags: Michigan, Crime, Labor, News, Government, Longform, Detroit Police Department, Michigan State Police, wandering cops, Cover Story
Metro Detroit

Detroit ‘psychedelic church’ moves to take case to federal court

‘Exercising one’s religious freedom does not give them license to break the law,’ city officials say

By Randiah Camille Green
Dec 7, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit, Crime, News, Government, Psychedelics, Soul Tribes International Ministries, Proposal E, Shaman Shu, Detroit Police Department, Detroit drug law, drug decriminalization
Investigations

Metro Times, Invisible Institute file lawsuit against Michigan State Police for access to records

The request is part of a project to create a national database tracking “wandering cops” who engage in misconduct

By Steve Neavling
Nov 28, 2023

Tags: Investigations, Media, News, Government, Michigan State Police, Detroit Police Department, Invisible Institute, wandering cops
Metro Detroit

Detroit is most dishonest city in the U.S., according to survey

Most Detroiters polled said if they found $1,000 on the ground, they would keep it

By Lee DeVito
Nov 22, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit, LOL, News, Views & Opinions, surveys about Detroit, Detroit Police Department

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