Patrick Brown

On October 19, 2013, Patrick Hill, a 37-year-old African American male and veteran police officer, succumbed to injuries sustained in a shooting incident that had occurred six months earlier in Detroit, Michigan. A dedicated member of the Detroit Police Department for 13 years, he had been serving with the Comprehensive Violence Reduction Partnership, a multi-agency task force designed to combat violent crime in the city. His death marked the tragic conclusion to a struggle for survival that beg ...