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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids City Attorney Anita Hitchcock is retiring after 23 years serving the city. Hitchcock, who has ...
Two people were shot in Grand Rapids early Friday morning, according to the Grand Rapids Police Department. The shooting ...
"We have that operations plan in place. It's a lot of work for us. A lot of officers will be called in on their day off." ...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A state representative criticized the release of a new docuseries about the Grand Rapids Police Department as the murder trial approaches for one of its ex-officers charged ...
Department of Civil Rights officials initially launched an investigation in 2019 into whether Grand Rapids police “had engaged in a pattern and practice of discrimination” in its policing, but ...
After the charges were announced Friday, the city of Grand Rapids put out a statement saying they have been fully cooperative with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights throughout the investigation.
After 10 years with the Grand Rapids Police Department, Chief Melvin Pedersen is retiring Pedersen, who has spent 46 years in law enforcement, said he plans to spend more time with his wife, two ...
The Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) has filed four formal complaints against the department, alleging racial bias stemming from incidents in 2017, 2018 and 2020.Around 18% of the city ...
Police in Grand Rapids, the Michigan city where 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya was shot and killed by an officer earlier this year, have been hit with a pair of formal discrimination charges stemming ...
The Michigan Department of Civil Rights filed two racial discrimination charges against the Grand Rapids Police Department for separate incidents. The charges stem from two complaints filed ...