Detroit Police joined state corrections officials, community groups and criminologists from the Manhattan Institute Tuesday to launch a plan to quell home invasions in one west side neighborhood.
The backdrop: There have been eight homicides and 33 nonfatal shootings in Detroit over the past five days.
The new community policing initiative in the Grandmont-Rosedale neighborhood that takes a proactive approach to crime-fighting. The 90-day pilot program, which begins June 4, will target home invasions in the neighborhood. Detroit Police and the Michigan Department of Corrections will do home visits on parolees and probationers considered at risk to reoffend.
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a think tank, is funding an outreach team that includes criminologist George Kelling and director Michael Allegretti, who worked with Detroit Police to develop the program.
