Allie Gross

"I truly did not expect anything like this to happen when I went to school," says the girl.

Anger at police brutality usually revolves around the shooting of unarmed people, but cops don't have to physically harm—or even arrest—to do lasting damage.

The aftermath of a nasty scene at a Detroit public high school raises fresh doubts about whether cops should be disciplining students.

A look back on Congressman Santa Claus's short, but colorful, stint in public office.

As the Detroit Blight Task Force begins tearing down the city's crumbling buildings, the artists of the Seafoam Palace are trying to save the wreckage and transform it into something new.

Since 2003, Detroit's police department had been under the federal oversight of the US Department of Justice, and shaking its bad rap had been difficult.

The Detroit Police Department has come a long way since the days when its cops were the deadliest in America. But the DPD's "broken windows" tactics are just excessive force in another form.

We still don't know how or why 19-year-old Renisha McBride wound up on Theodore Wafer's suburban front porch last November. But we do know that Wafer responded by shooting her in the face through a screen door—and that that's murder.

Taking Stock of a Constantly Shifting City