Michigan’s overall crime rates remain close to the national average, but some cities continue to struggle with significantly higher levels of violent and property crime. Cities like Benton Harbor, ...

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 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 Police Chief Todd A. Bettison, Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield and others, during a press conference on the 'plummet' in violent crime statistics in 2025, at DPSH, in Detroit, Michigan on January ...