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Disturbing Details Emerge on Why City Administrator Put AAPD Chief on Two-Week Leave
by P.D. Lesko
Correction: Derek Delacourt, Ann Arbor's Community Services Area Administrator, responded to say he has no involvement with or jurisdiction over the Ann Arbor Unit of Community Standards.
On Friday February 21, 2020…
UPDATED: May 30 New Deadline to Take Online Survey About Community Interactions with Ann Arbor Police
by Patricia Lesko
The Project Team at consultant Hillard Heintze, a Chicago-based security consulting firm hired in Mar. 2017 by City Council, and who is being paid $200,000 to review the Ann Arbor Police Department, is seeking feedback …
How Secure Are You? Happy World Password Day
by Megan Squire
The first Thursday in May is World Password Day, but don’t buy a cake or send cards. Computer chip maker Intel created the event as an annual reminder that, for most of us, our password habits are nothing to celebrate.…
OP-ED: Michigan Must Finally End Civil Forfeiture
by Jarrett Skorup
Michigan has made great strides to reforming civil forfeiture — the process that allows law enforcement to take someone’s property and forfeit it to the government. But Michigan still has laws that are among the weakest…
Starting April 4, Local, County and State Police to Target Traffic Enforcement in County Roundabouts
The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team
This video prepared by MDOT demonstrates how drivers should be using a roundabout. It's not the traffic flow seen in many of Ann Arbor's roundabouts. This is why the Washtenaw County Sheriff's…
$2,000 Reward Offered for Info. About Ann Arbor Bank Robbery
by The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team
Ann Arbor police are asking for help identifying a man who robbed a Comerica Bank Tuesday in Ann Arbor.
According to police, the man entered the bank located at the corner of Washtenaw…
Ann Arbor Docs Convicted Of Running Narcotics “Pill Mill”
by The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team
Two Ann Arbor-area doctors face significant prison time after they were found guilty on March 23 of writing unnecessary prescriptions for narcotics.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Detroit…
Crime Data Show Rise in Reports of Violent Crime in Ann Arbor—Is It a Blip or a Trend?
by Patricia Lesko
Ann Arbor recently passed Detroit as the city with the highest assessed value in the state. In the realm of public safety, however, while the number of violent crimes and property crimes in Detroit have fallen, in Ann…
AAPD is on Twitter: Police Are Using Social Media in New and Sometimes Disturbing Ways
by Laura Entis
The Ann Arbor Police Dept. this week launched a Twitter account: @A2Police. In two days, Ann Arbor's women and men in blue have Tweeted out three times. In the same time period, one of the seven Twitter accounts of the New…
AAPD to Hold Trio of Neighborhood Watch Community Meetings
Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team
At its Feb. 21, 2017 meeting, Council members voted to allocate $200,000 to hire Chicago-based consulting firm Hillard Heintze LLC to conduct an independent review of the city's police department. The…