Detroit Police Department

Eighteen officers will be part of a centralized team that will respond to mental health crises across the city. The team will include nine behavioral specialists from Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network, who have backgrounds in social work, psychology, counseling and nursing.

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.

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.

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.

Detroit's police officer unions and city leadership have reached a tentative contract agreement. It includes a $10,000 pay increase for officers coming out of the police academy.

The gun detection program has been controversial, with claims that the technology is disproportionately placed in communities of color, and that it hasn’t resulted in significant leads or arrests.

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During a press conference Tuesday, DPD Chief James White promised changes, following two separate investigations into corruption and fraud in the department.