Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

After recent incidents of violence in the Inkster area, police are now asking for input from the community in a survey about ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield and other community leaders announced on Monday the creation of the Office of Neighborhood and Community Safety ...

This story has been updated with new information. Homicides in Detroit continue to decline, with 2025 marking what officials have described as yet another historic drop: the fewest murders since 1964, ...

Detroit has reached a historic turning point in its decades-long struggle with violent crime. On Wednesday, January 7, 2026, city officials announced that criminal homicides in 2025 fell to their ...

DETROIT – Detroit officials say the city saw a dramatic drop in violent crime in 2025, reaching levels not seen in decades and falling below 200 homicides for the first time since the mid-1960s.

DETROIT, MI - Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield on Monday, Feb. 23, signed an executive order establishing Detroit’s first Office of Neighborhood and Community Safety, promising violence prevention efforts ...

Detroit launched a new Office of Neighborhood and Community Safety to centralize CVI, conflict resolution and survivor ...

As Detroit’s mayor-elect Mary Sheffield prepares to take office, our city stands at a crossroads. The question wasn’t only who leads, but how we lead and whether we’ll keep investing in what’s truly ...

When I read about violence interrupters, I always come back to the same tension. The work is built for moments that rarely make a police report. A brewing argument that never becomes a shooting. A ...

The annual Silence the Violence rally calls for an end to gun violence in Detroit. Families, faith leaders, law enforcement and youth advocates gathered on Detroit’s eastside for the 18th annual ...