Crime

ACCORDING TO DATA compiled by the Ann Arbor Police Department, during the month of May there were 338 crimes, total, reported. The homes of 26 residents were invaded by thieves. Of those break-ins, 12 were forced entries, or almost half of…

by P.D. Lesko IN ANSWER TO how often the officers on Ann Arbor’s police department simply skip the step of filing official police reports, a source within the AAPD said: “Probably four times per month and all of the officers are doing…

WARD 3 COUNCIL MEMBER Stephen Kunselman’s comments at a recent City Council meeting—about what some believe is a hushed-up, long-term problem with Class A drug sales and drug use in the AADL library system—illustrate a breakdown in…

I finished reading the front page story about the emails between AADL trustee Prue Rosenthal and Josie Parker and was left speechless that the public was not alerted to these problems. The information may or may not have caused people to be…

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, AADL officials turned over 1,307 pages of incident reports generated by library staff during 2013. A total of 160 of the incidents involved patrons sleeping on library premises. ON…

by P.D. Lesko It pays, literally, to live in at least one of the high rent neighborhoods in Ann Arbor. Specifically, outgoing Ward 2 Council member Tony Derezinski's neighborhood. Between January and September 2012, within a 1 mile radium…

A2PNotes: This is filed under "Scoops & Scores" because you read it here first. In answer to how often the officers on Ann Arbor's police department simply skip the step of filing official police reports, a source within the AAPD told…

Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje has a track record of making it up as he goes along, particularly where the issue of crime in the city is concerned. Over the past several months, there have been multiple armed robberies of banks. In…