| Detroit Police Department |
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| Making Detroit a safer place to live, work, and visit | |
| Established | 1865 |
| Jurisdiction | Municipal |
| Stations | 6 |
| Chief of Police | Ella M. Bully-Cummings |
The Detroit Police Department serves the city of Detroit, Michigan. The department was founded in 1865 to serve the city's growing population. The department is broken into 6 districts, the central, southwestern, northeastern, western, eastern, and northwestern. The department has lost 6 officers between the years 2000 and 2007. The 1970's were hard on the department with 26 officers killed in ten years. Ella M. Bully-Cummings is the chief of police. She is the first female police chief in department history. In 2000, the city requested an investigation by the United States Justice Department into the Detroit Police Department which was concluded in 2003 over allegations regarding its use of force and civil rights violations.[1] Despite the critics, the city proceeded with a major reorganization of the Detroit Police Department; simply put, the city seized the opportunity to trim its budget saving $20,000,000.[2] The department has seen a decline in crime.
Demographics
Breakdown of the makeup of the rank and file of DPD [3]:
- Male: 75%
- Female: 25%
- African-American/Black: 63%
- White: 34%
- Hispanic: 3%
The Detroit Police Department has one of the largest percentages of sworn black officers of any major city police department. Currently, 12 of the department's 15 upper command members including the chief, assistant chief of operations, assistant chief of administration, and all six of the department's district commanders are black [4]
External links
Notes
- ^ Quarterly Status Report to the Independent Federal Monitor. Detroit Police Department Retrieved on April 8, 2007.
- ^ Lin, Judy and David Joser, (August 30, 2005).Detroit to trim 150 cops, precincts. Detroit News. Retrieved on July 24, 2007.
- ^ Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, 2000: Data for Individual State and Local Agencies with 100 or More Officers
- ^ Detroit Police Department Organizational Chart
