Taylor: Detroit's "Urban Terrorism" Needs Solutions Beyond Police

Carl Taylor is a Detroiter and a professor of sociology at Michigan State University who written extensively about poverty and crime in Detroit.

In his Free Press commentary this week, he called the surge of attacks and shootings in Detroit this spring  "urban terrorism," and argued the solutions to address this criminal-driven terrorism lay beyond the police. 

"This is not a police problem, it is a societal problem," Taylor writes. "Surges of serious crime terrorizing Detroit’s middle class communities threaten a balance of power leaving a discomfort that disconnects many from a once stable and safe city."