Detroit Police

At a Wednesday press conference, Chief James White insisted that Porcha Woodruff's wrongful arrest wasn’t a case of botched facial recognition. Instead, he blamed investigators for using improper procedures, and failing to do any follow-up investigation.

Police arrested Porcha Woodruff, a 32-year-old Black woman, for robbery and carjacking based off a facial recognition hit from surveillance footage. But Woodruff didn't do it, and critics say this is more proof the technology is flawed, racially biased, and dangerous.

Police officers can call supervisors to deploy the weapons. Detroit police say the weapons are tools to help officers resolve situations without using deadly force.

A Black police officer in Detroit has won a federal lawsuit in which alleged his fellow officers used excessive force and retaliated against him based on his race.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy’s office will not press charges against the Detroit police officers who shot and killed Porter Burks, who had schizophrenia. Worthy said evidence indicates the officers acted in self-defense.

Chief White wants the officers and supervisor suspended without pay after he says officers shot and killed a 27-year-old woman who was in a mental health crisis last week.

A woman who allegedly assaulted her young son and mother has been fatally shot inside a Detroit home as she struggled with an officer over a gun.

Burks, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by police in October, after police say they were called to help him with a mental health crisis.

Justly Johnson and Kendrick Scott were convicted of the 1999 Mother’s Day murder of Lisa Kindred. The proposed settlements, which still need Detroit City Council approval, would pay each man $8.25 million.

Detroit Will Breathe members sued the city over their treatment during protests in the summer of 2020. The city has now offered them over $1 million to resolve the lawsuit.