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State Rep. Donavan McKinney, a Detroit Democrat who also represents Center Line and part of Warren, played host and was joined by state Rep. Christine Morse, a Kalamazoo Democrat, and a handful of community leaders in crime prevention and response, in the event last month at Perfecting Church on Van Dyke Avenue at Nevada Street.
New efforts to curb crime in the city of Detroit are happening soon after $700,000 in grants were recently awarded to six community groups through a new program called ShotStoppers.
"We saw that there was an instance where a gentleman was wrongly incarcerated for a year," Brent said. "He sat in the Cook County Jail and the only evidentiary piece of information that was used to incarcerate him was ShotSpotter."
The Stop Killing Our Babies march and rally will be at Gorham Playground on Pembroke and St Marys from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. There will be bounce houses, free food, live performances and cash prizes for kids who come up with the best business ideas.
Detroit — A majority of southeast Michigan counties are vaccinating residents at twice the rate Detroit is and that gap is threatening to prolong the pandemic in Michigan's largest city and forcing health officials to find alternatives to mass-vaccination sites like the TCF Center and Ford Field. About 1 in 5, or 21%, of Detroiters have received at least one shot, according to the city's vaccine dashboard, compared to 33% of residents in Macomb County, 40% in suburban Wayne County and 41% in Oakland and Washtenaw counties. Statewide, 37% of all residents have at least one dose. At the...