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The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot, and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967". [3] Composed mainly of confrontations between black residents and the Detroit Police Department, it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967, in ...
Website. detroitmi.gov /police. The Detroit Police Department (DPD) is the primary law enforcement agency of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1865, it has nearly 2,500 officers, making it the largest law enforcement organization in the state.
The Detroit Police Department at the time was 93% white, [2] [3] of whom 45% working in black neighborhoods were considered to be "extremely anti-Negro" and an additional 34% were "prejudiced". [4] The riot began after police raided a black-owned business that hosted a " blind pig " (illegal bar), during a party to celebrate the safe return of ...
Lt. Ernest Holloway, a state police officer, stops a member of the Black Panther Party armed with a rifle at the entrance to the State Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on May 2, 1967. (Getty Images ...
Detroit police officers outside of the concert were focused on community engagement, White said. ... The Concert at Michigan Central” in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit on Thursday, June 6 ...
The station served as the police station for the Detroit Police Department's sixth police precinct for over 56 years, covering a portion of Southwest Detroit neighborhoods from 1930 until 1986. It served another 19 years (from 1986 until 2005) as Gang Squad Headquarters for the Detroit Special Crimes Section. The building was abandoned from ...
Violence flared between police and blacks in the early morning hours of July 23, 1967. The confrontation was spurred on by a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar in the Near West Side. The rioting left 43 dead and 1,189 injured, and resulted in 7,200 arrests and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed.
The Detroit Partnership (also known as the Detroit crime family, the Detroit Combination, the Detroit Mafia, the Zerilli crime family (Italian pronunciation: [dzeˈrilli]), and the Tocco–Zerilli crime family) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Detroit, Michigan. The family mainly operates in Detroit and the Greater Detroit ...