GRPD

After three months as the Grand Rapids Police Department Chief of Staff, former Kalamazoo Police Chief, Karianne Thomas, has resigned.

Police are investigating after a car rammed into a building in southeast Grand Rapids around 1130p.m. Sunday.

The Grand Rapids Police Department has identified the young man found in the Grand River Monday morning as 16-year-old Damontrell Brown of Grand Rapids.

Internet chatter and an event flyer circulating online point to a Proud Boys rally planned in downtown Grand Rapids Saturday, July 10.

The Grand Rapids Police Department will be holding a hiring workshop and physical fitness assessment as part of an event for the department on July 15th.

A local advocacy group is planning a protest in downtown Grand Rapids on Friday because of the hiring of a controversial candidate as the police department's new Chief of Staff.

GRPD says they've gotten several complaints from the community about groups of up to 100 motorcyclists "riding through the city, conducting dangerous stunts, disobeying traffic control and causing damage."

A fight between a Grand Rapids Police Officer and a larceny suspect was caught on a security camera and video shows a store manager tackling the suspect as he tried to flee the store.

This week kicks off a nearly three week campaign for the "Defund the GRPD" community action group. They are hoping to convince the Grand Rapids City Commission to vote no on the 2022 Grand Rapids city budget.

Two people were injured in two separate shootings on Grand Rapids southeast side early Monday.

Not only is car theft on the rise but crimes associated with it.

It's part of an operation to help curb the violence the city experienced last year, which GRPD calls an unprecedented year for violent crime in the city.