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Flint Struggles with Violent Crime
12:59 pm
Mon December 20, 2010

Flint mayor to ask for more tax money to fund police

Credit (photo by Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio)
Flint Public Safety Director Alvern Lock (left) addresses a news conference on the city's murder rate. Mayor Dayne Walling listens
Crime
1:58 pm
Mon December 13, 2010

Flint breaks 25-year-old murder record

sign in Flint, Michigan
Credit Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio

Just a day after tying a record set in 1986, Flint recorded its 62nd homicide of the year. The body of a man was found slumped over in a car parked on a city street.

At a news conference this morning, before the latest murder victim was found, Flint Mayor Dayne Walling blamed the spike in violence in his city on the loss of jobs.

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