POLICE DEPARTMENTS

CPD leaders said the retirement rate has now stabilized. But experts warned such a large number of more senior officers exiting may contribute to a “brain drain” at the top of the department.

Here’s our coverage of the situation from the past few weeks in Metro Detroit.

Local police departments are not immune to the massive worker shortage stinging businesses and organizations nationwide.

The Troy Police Department is using drone technology to help in a variety of cases ranging from missing people cases to traffic crashes.

A Black Defense Department employee who was hesitant to get out of her car at 2 a.m. was pulled from the car by police, then charged with resisting arrest and eluding police. After prosecutors watched the video, all charges were dropped.

WESTLAND, Mich. – In a time where people across the country are asking for transparency from their police departments, Westland Police Department’s efforts include a police community transparency dashboard. Tickets, arrests and complaints of excessive use of force by the police are all broken down by number, race and gender. View here: Westland PD Community Dashboard“This is something that the public has been asking for a long time,” said Westland police Lt. Robert Wilkie. How those statistics trend can also be useful for the department internally. Related: Westland man says he was charged for an armed robbery he didn’t commitRelated: New website featuring Livonia Police Department policies, data launched after groups call for transparency

WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. Tuesday afternoon, there was an open dialogue discussion between several city leaders as well as police officers and the minorities that live in their communities. Those are bad people that should not be police officers, said Westland Police Chief Jeff Jedrusik. Dearborns police department along with over a dozen others in the Western Wayne conference that will be undergoing special training to make sure there is no bias when it comes to making an arrest. But know this, theres also hurt, anger and disgust by law enforcement officers towards the officers involved," Jedrusik said. Were talking about the bad officers, said Westland City Councilwoman, Tasha Green.

So now you must be wondering what the U.S. would look like without its traditional policing system: Heres what some researchers and advocates are proposing as an alternative. Community-led safety initiativesAdvocates believe that a new approach to public safety is necessary to ensure the safety of all American lives -- especially Black Americans who are disproportionately arrested, sentenced and killed by police around the country. There has been significant research conducted on potential community-based public safety systems as alternatives to traditional policing for years. It is important not to confuse a community-led public safety initiative with community-oriented policing, as these two practices are actually quite different. The reimagined public safety system is designed to exist apart from the traditional policing system, while community-oriented policing is a practice that works in tandem with traditional policing.

Racial Profiling 2.0 As police departments turn to big data to help reduce crime in their neighborhoods, advocacy groups are sounding the alarm about high-tech racial profiling. The algorithm-driven systems analyze supposedly impartial historical crime data to predict where crimes will occur or who might commit them. But critics say the data can actually reinforce biased past police practices. This CBSN Originals documentary raises the question: Are predictive policing programs actually super-charging racial bias?

U.S. police departments are training their officers -- and members of the public, in some cases -- how to respond to and stay alive in active shooter attacks. Anderson Cooper reports.

Local police departments armed with military-style equipment Police departments in the St. Louis area, like those around the country, are arming their officers with equipment used on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. According to one report, the federal government has doled out more than $34 billion to local police departments since the September 11 terrorist attacks for military-style equipment. Jan Crawford reports.