Today and Friday the Wayne State University Forum on Contemporary Issues in Society (FOCIS) will present City Under Siege: A University Forum on the Crime Crisis in Detroit.
The two-day symposium takes place on campus and explores the concept of community policing as a strategy for reducing crime in urban areas such as Detroit.
The program will feature a variety of speakers and panelists including William J. Bratton, author, former Chief of Police for Los Angeles, California. Mr. Bratton, who also served as Police Commissioner for the cities of New York and Boston, will deliver the keynote address on the morning of September 21.
Barbara McQuade, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, and Ralph Godbee, Chief of the Detroit Police Department also have agreed to participate in the program. Click here for more details.
The Detroit News reports the summer in Detroit ended on a particularly grim note — at least 29 homicides and 82 nonfatal shootings in the past three weeks, pushing the year-to-date homicide total to at least 281, compared with 259 during the same period last year.
Between May 1 and Sept. 17, there were 14 days with at least 10 shooting victims, according to a Detroit News analysis of Detroit Police crime data. Click here for the story.
