Editing Flint, Michigan (section)

===Law enforcement===
{{main|Crime in Flint, Michigan}}
[[File:Flint Police.jpg|thumb|A Flint police vehicle]]
Law enforcement in Flint is the responsibility of the [[Flint Police Department]], the [[Genesee County Sheriff's Office (Michigan)|Genesee County Sheriff's Office]], and the [[Michigan State Police]]. Flint has been consistently ranked as one of the [[List of United States cities by crime rate|most dangerous cities in the United States]] by multiple sources.<ref>[http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2011/05/24/the-most-dangerous-city-in-america/ The most dangerous city in America] ''Market Watch'' May 24, 2011</ref><ref>[http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2012/04/forbes_magazine_ranks_flint_si.html Forbes Magazine ranks Flint sixth most dangerous city for women in the nation] ''The Flint Journal'' via MLive.com, April 27, 2012</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/14/despite-recent-shootings-chicago-nowhere-near-u-s-murder-capital/ |title=Despite recent shootings, Chicago nowhere near U.S. 'murder capital' |last1=Desilver |first1=Drew |date=July 14, 2014 |website=FactTank |publisher=Pew Research Center |access-date=August 28, 2014 |quote=According to the FBI figures, Flint, Mich., had the highest murder rate of any sizeable U.S. city in 2012, the most recent year available. There were 62 murders per 100,000 population (which, coincidentally, was just about Flint's estimated population that year).  }}</ref><ref>[http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-cities-in-america-2013-6#1-flint-mich-25 The 25 Most Dangerous Cities In America] ''Business Insider'', June 13, 2013</ref> From 2007 to 2009, violent crime in Flint was ranked in the top five among U.S. cities with a population of at least 50,000 people.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/09/fbi_statistics_show_flint_four.html |newspaper=[[Flint Journal]] |title=FBI statistics show Flint fourth most violent city in America |date=September 17, 2010 |author=David Harris|access-date=October 19, 2010}}</ref> From 2010 to 2012, Flint ranked as the city with the highest violent crime rate among cities with over 100,000 population.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2014/02/flint_loses_the_title_of_fbis.html|title=Flint no longer most violent city in America, according to new FBI crime stats|website=Mlive.com|date=February 19, 2014|access-date=August 27, 2017}}</ref> In 2015, ''[[CQ Press]]'' (using FBI statistics) ranked the crime index for Flint as seventh-highest in cities with population greater than 75,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://data.sagepub.com/sagestats/document.php?id=6373|title=Crime Rate Rankings (City): SAGE Stats|website=Data.sagepub.com|access-date=August 27, 2017|archive-date=September 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915150519/http://data.sagepub.com/sagestats/document.php?id=6373|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2018, the FBI reported Flint was ranked as America's sixth most violent city among those with population of 50,000 or more in 2017. Violent crimes were up 23% compared to 2016 according to the report.<ref>[https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2018/09/flint_is_sixth_most_violent_ci.html Flint violent crime rate up 23 percent, new FBI stats show] ''The Flint Journal'' via MLive.com, September 24, 2018</ref>