Police worship starts early in Lansing, and this time we can point to the story of Jeremie Bordua, a fifth-grader at Lansing’s Mount Hope STEAM School...

Mentally Ill Man Shot Multiple Times by Dearborn Cop
The Wayne County Medical Examiner has declared the death of 35-year-old Kevin Matthews to be a homicide. Matthews was shot and killed Wednesday after ...

Court Rules Cops Wrong To Seize Car Over $20 Of Weed, But There is More
For nearly three years, Linda Ross, 26, has been fighting the seizure of her vehicle, which police took after finding a small amount of marijuana insi...

Michigan Town Misused Millions in Asset Forfeiture Funds
A U.S. Department of Justice audit has found improprieties in the way Plymouth Township accounted for forfeited cash, cars and other property under a ...

Speeding Police Cruiser Without Siren or Lights Kills Woman
The Benton Township officer who was driving the police vehicle that struck and killed a woman Sunday was traveling over the speed limit and did not ha...

Man Jailed for Traffic Ticket Dies in Cell After 17 Days of Torture
It was a death sentence. David Stojcevski, a 32-year-old resident of Roseville, Michigan, was arrested for failing to pay a $772 fine stemming from ca...

Michigan Senate Moves to Reform Asset Forfeiture Laws
Michigan is one step closer to requiring police to keep track of how much property they seize from citizens. Michigan’s Senate Judiciary Committee adv...

FBI Denies Racial Profiling, Mass Surveillance With Spy Planes In Michigan
According to flight data, over the weekend an FBI surveillance plane carried out a protracted overflight of the city of Dearborn, Michigan. Some 30% o...

Judge Sends 3 Young Children to Jail For Refusing to Visit Their Father
A judge who unsuccessfully tried to arrange child visitation for a father, decided that the best way to deal with the problem was to send the children...

Failure to Renew Dog License Lands Michigan Mom in Jail
KALAMAZOO, MI — On her way to a Shipshewana shopping trip on June 23, Becky Rehr swung by the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office to show her $35 ...