While a bulk of police resources were downtown, officers were called to at least three shootings, seven home invasions, three armed robberies, four arsons, a rape and numerous domestic assaults.
Fears of violence kept many people away from Detroit’s fireworks.
Follow our live blog as we monitor crime and police responses at the fireworks in Detroit tonight.
Beginning next week, Second Avenue in the Cass Corridor and Midtown will become a two-way street, a sign of the incredible decline of the street since the 1930s.
The Knight Foundation plans to award the top art projects with money as part of a multi-million-dollar investment in Detroit.
Organizers are dismissive about complaints and told a would-be attendee, “Go fuck yourself.”
A spokeswoman for the event called the protesters “Wayne State cunts.”
The new father is undergoing surgery today after he said three men severely beat him while shouting racial epithets following a car crash on Detroit’s east side.
Detroit firefighters responding to a vacant house fire this morning quickly found out they were up against yet another brazen arsonist.
More than a third of the houses and buildings are vacant in eight Detroit neighborhoods.