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The Detroit Police Department has one of the largest percentages of Black officers of any major city police department, reflecting current overall city demographics. Lawsuits alleging discrimination stemming from the influence of affirmative action and allegations of race-based promotional bias for executive positions have surfaced repeatedly.
In May 1968, Detroit Mayor Cavanaugh appointed a Special Task Force on Police Recruitment and Hiring. Thirty-five percent of the police hired by Detroit in 1968 were black, and by July 1972, blacks made up 14 percent of the Detroit police, more than double their percentage in 1967. [94]
Detroit police began an internal audit, Bourgeois said, and by September, at least six officers without active licenses were identified. “The number just kept growing," Bourgeois said.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Michigan.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 571 law enforcement agencies employing 19,009 sworn police officers, about 190 for each 100,000 residents.
The Detroit Board of Police Commissioners has launched an online dashboard that gives the public more data and information about citizen complaints against the city's police officers. The ...
At least 32 Detroit police officers recently hired by the department have been working without active law enforcement licences, according to MCOLES.
William L. Hart (January 17, 1924 – November 22, 2003) [1] was a Detroit Police Chief for almost 15 years, [2] a position for which he was hired by Coleman Young, the mayor of the Detroit, in 1976; [2] Hart was a political ally and adviser of Young's. [3]
Ike McKinnon in the chapel on the University of Detroit Mercy campus in Detroit, on Aug. 19, 2021. McKinnon served as a Detroit police officer for 19 years and was appointed chief of the ...