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How Michigan State Police uses data-driven tactics to reduce freeway speeding
Michigan State Police’s recently reinstated motor unit is taking aggressive action against dangerous driving behaviors on Metro Detroit freeways, where officers recently clocked speeds as high as 103 mph during a targeted enforcement operation.
During a recent three-hour Operation Wolfpack detail on I-96 near Joy Road, troopers conducted 71 traffic stops resulting in:
- 85 citations issued
- 18 verbal warnings
- 19 misdemeanor arrests
- 1 vehicle towed
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, mother of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, passes away
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the former U.S. Representative for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District and mother of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, has died…