Detroit recorded 203 homicides and 11,826 total violent offenses in 2024, according to the 2024 Charter-Mandated Annual Report. The report also shows lower counts for most major violent and property offenses than in 2023, alongside changes in police staffing, gun-violence investigations, community violence interruption, and mental-health calls.
Contents
- 2024 crime totals
- Violent crime and shootings
- Property crime
- Gun-violence response
- Police staffing and budget
- Officer residency, age, and separations
- Mental-health calls
2024 crime totals
The 2024 Charter-Mandated Annual Report lists 40,623 total Part 1 offenses in Detroit in 2024, down 4.38% from 42,482 in 2023. Part 1 offenses in the report combine the violent and property categories shown below. The report records decreases in both groups, although the size of the change varied substantially by offense.
| Category | 2024 | 2023 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total violent offenses | 11,826 | 12,764 | -7.35% |
| Total property offenses | 28,797 | 29,718 | -3.10% |
| Total Part 1 offenses | 40,623 | 42,482 | -4.38% |
| Homicides | 203 | 252 | -19.44% |
| Robberies | 1,210 | 1,394 | -13.20% |
| Aggravated assaults | 9,797 | 10,445 | -6.20% |
The homicide count was 203 in 2024, compared with 252 in 2023. The report describes 203 as Detroit’s fewest homicides since 1965. That historical comparison is presented by the report; it is not an independent verification of earlier homicide records.
The report counted 616 sexual assaults in 2024, down 8.47% from 673 in 2023. Aggravated assaults remained the largest listed violent-crime category at 9,797, followed by robbery at 1,210. Together with the homicide and sexual-assault counts, these figures make up the report’s 11,826 total violent offenses.
Violent crime and shootings
The 2024 report counted 606 non-fatal shootings, down 24.63% from 804 in 2023. It also compares the 2024 total with 2020: 606 non-fatal shootings were 48% below the 1,172 recorded in 2020. These comparisons use different reference years, so the 2023 year-over-year percentage and the 2020 comparison should be read separately.
Carjackings also declined. Detroit recorded 142 carjackings in 2024, down 14.97% from 167 in 2023. The report additionally states that 142 carjackings were 71% below the 485 recorded in 2015, when Project Green Light started. The 2015 figure is a historical comparison in the report, while the 2023 and 2024 figures provide the closest annual comparison supplied here.
The violent-offense totals and shooting measures describe different scopes. Total violent offenses include homicides, sexual assaults, aggravated assaults, and robberies in the report’s listed categories. Non-fatal shootings and carjackings are additional measures reported separately. They should not be added to the violent-offense total without a defined classification method.
Property crime
Detroit recorded 28,797 total property offenses in 2024, down 3.10% from 29,718 in 2023, according to the 2024 Charter-Mandated Annual Report. The three listed property categories moved at different rates:
- Burglaries totaled 4,766 in 2024, compared with 4,828 in 2023, a 1.28% decrease.
- Larcenies totaled 15,623 in 2024, compared with 15,630 in 2023, a 0.04% decrease.
- Motor vehicle thefts totaled 8,408 in 2024, compared with 9,260 in 2023, a 9.20% decrease.
Motor vehicle thefts therefore showed the largest percentage decline among the three property categories supplied. Larceny changed very little on the report’s year-over-year measure, falling by 7 reported incidents from 15,630 to 15,623. The report’s total property-offense figure is the relevant aggregate for the category; the listed subcategories should not be treated as a complete inventory of every possible property offense unless the report defines them that way.
Taken together, the property and violent totals show a larger reported percentage decline in violent offenses than in property offenses: 7.35% versus 3.10%. This is a comparison of the report’s published percentages, not a rate per resident, because no population denominator is supplied here.
Gun-violence response
The 2024 Charter-Mandated Annual Report records several activity measures connected to gun investigations and prevention. Detroit recovered 6,211 guns in 2024. The department entered 4,753 casings into the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, or NIBIN, and generated 2,599 investigative leads with NIBIN, excluding New Year’s Eve.
The report lists 39 square miles of ShotSpotter coverage in 2024 and 373 arrests from ShotSpotter notifications. Coverage is an area measure, while arrests are an enforcement outcome measure; the two numbers describe different parts of the system and do not establish an arrest rate. Detroit also had 1,030 Project Green Light locations in 2024.
Court backlog figures provide another measure of the gun-violence response. The report states that the Wayne County Third Circuit and 36th District courts cut their pending gun-felony backlogs by 77% to 84% over the last two years. It gives a combined backlog of 6,106 in October 2021 and 1,233 afterward. Because the report expresses the reduction as a range for the two courts, the 77% to 84% figures should not be replaced with one combined percentage.
Detroit’s six community violence interruption groups covered 25 square miles in 2024. Within the six CVI zones, homicides dropped 45% from November 1, 2023, through October 31, 2024. That measurement period is not the same as the calendar-year crime totals above, so the CVI comparison should be kept distinct from the January-through-December 2024 counts.
Police staffing and budget
The report lists a Detroit Police Department General Fund budget of $442 million, representing 30% of the city’s general fund budget. The budget summary lists 2,699 police officers of all ranks and 755 civilian DPD employees. It lists 11,146 total city employees; police officers represented 24% of city employees, while DPD police and civilian staff represented 30%.
The staffing figures distinguish filled positions from authorized positions. Sworn staffing stood at 2,665 filled positions out of 2,705 total, or 98.6% filled. Civilian staffing stood at 755 filled positions out of 823 total, or 91.74% filled. Total DPD staffing was 3,420 filled positions out of 3,528 total, or 97.0% filled.
| Staffing group | Filled | Total positions | Filled share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sworn | 2,665 | 2,705 | 98.6% |
| Civilian | 755 | 823 | 91.74% |
| DPD total | 3,420 | 3,528 | 97.0% |
The report also lists $2.4 million budgeted for Neighborhood Police Officers and mental health crisis intervention teams. This amount is a budget allocation, not a count of officers, calls, or completed interventions.
Officer residency, age, and separations
In 2024, the report lists 620 sworn officers living in Detroit and 2,045 living outside the city. It gives the share of sworn officers who were Detroit residents as 22.9%, compared with 22.7% in 2023. The report also lists 430 civilian DPD employees living in the city and 325 living outside the city.
The age distribution supplied in the report includes 162 officers aged 18–22, equal to 6.2% of officers; 405 aged 23–27, or 15.4%; and 470 aged 28–32, or 17.9%. Other groups were 353 officers aged 33–37, or 13.4%; 190 aged 38–42, or 7.2%; and 235 aged 43–47, or 8.9%.
Older age groups included 282 officers aged 48–52, or 10.7%; 276 aged 53–57, or 10.5%; 167 aged 58–62, or 6.3%; 59 aged 63–67, or 2.2%; 28 aged 68–72, or 1.1%; and 5 aged 73–77, or 0.2%. These are counts and shares as presented in the 2024 report, not a forecast of future staffing.
The department recorded 151 total separations in 2024. The report breaks that figure into 116 police-officer separations, 14 sergeant separations, 8 detective separations, 5 lieutenant separations, 4 captain separations, 2 investigator separations, and 2 commander separations.
Monthly total separations were 18 in January, 20 in February, 8 in March, 10 in April, 12 in May, 8 in June, 13 in July, 20 in August, 14 in September, 6 in October, 11 in November, and 11 in December 2024. The highest monthly totals in the supplied figures were 20 in February and 20 in August; the lowest was 6 in October.
Mental-health calls
Detroit recorded 17,042 mental-health-related calls in 2023 and 14,761 in 2024, according to the 2024 Charter-Mandated Annual Report. The 2024 call categories listed in the report were 4,081 mental-not-violent calls, 6,196 violent-not-armed calls, 1,817 violent-armed calls, and 1,722 suicide-in-progress calls.
These four categories are reported as call-for-service measures. They describe the classifications supplied for 2024 and should not be interpreted as unique people, clinical diagnoses, or completed crisis interventions. The report’s separate $2.4 million budget line for Neighborhood Police Officers and mental health crisis intervention teams likewise describes planned funding, not the number of mental-health calls handled.