Detroit, Cleveland and Baltimore rank among the most stressed cities in the U.S., according to a recent report from WalletHub ...

Still, the Detroit violent crime rate stands at about 20.07 per 1,000 residents, according to NeighborhoodScout—and that’s five times the national median of 4.0.

Detroit has struggled with high crime rates, particularly violent crime. FBI data for 2021 reported a violent crime rate of 1,965 per 100,000 residents, significantly higher than the national ...

Detroit has been celebrating a remarkable decline in crime lately, reporting fewer criminal homicides in 2023 than in any year since 1966. Non-fatal shootings were also down year over year; so ...

The city is part of a national trend of declining rates of overall violent crime across the U.S. Detroit ended 2024 with about 203 homicides — down 49 from the year before and the fewest in the ...

The FBI data also suggests one cause for decrease, an increase in clearance rates (i.e., the extent to which a perpetrator is caught). This is one several causes of the drop in crime.

In 1969, Detroit had 439 killings and a population of 1.5 million, giving the city a rate of 29 homicides per 100,000 residents. The city's homicide rate peaked in 1987, when 686 killings made for ...

Detroit saw a precipitous decline in the number of homicides and shootings in 2024 over the year before, continuing a trend of sliding violent crime since a pandemic-era spike, according to police ...

The extraordinary drop in violent crime isn’t unique to Detroit, said Jeff Asher, a New Orleans-based expert in criminal justice statistics who analyzes crime data in a weekly newsletter: The ...

The Detroit Police Department’s goal is to tackle crime in the city, and the numbers show a reduction in some crime categories, according to Chief James White, who says the numbers look great.