Uncovering Unsolved Murders: Inside an Abandoned Police Precinct
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- In today’s video, we’re going to take you with us as we explore an abandoned police station and courthouse within the city of Inkster Michigan. Inkster is a small city, only about 6 and half square miles, located approximately 20 miles west of Detroit, following along the famous US 12 route also known as Michigan avenue. The city of Inkster is notorious in its own right, with an extremely higher rate of violent crime than the US average. Many locals consider Inkster to be just as dangerous as its neighboring city of Detroit and often gets a bad wrap for such. In the late 1960s, the city of Inkster built a sprawling municipal complex along South River Park Drive, just to the north of Michigan ave. It consisted of three buildings; the city hall, police station, and courthouse. The modern and brutalist looking municipal buildings were in operation for approximately 45 years when the city of inkster was awarded $8 million funding to build a new city hall and police station directly off of Michigan avenue in 2013. In 2014, the new building was finally completed and the offices all moved out from the former complex along south river park drive. The old municipal buildings were left abandoned and as you will see in the video, city officials left pretty much everything behind for us to uncover upon our exploration.
When we first explored the inkster police station, courthouse, and city hall in 2017, we couldn’t believe the amount of supplies, equipment, property, files, and paperwork left behind. Of course we found boxes of criminal and traffic tickets, folders of criminal investigations, the booking area, the detective offices, the courtrooms, the evidence room, and the jail cells. In addition to all of that, we also found police officer uniforms, jackets, and a bulletproof vest in the old locker room. But nothing could prepare us for what we would eventually uncover in the basement. The first thing that we came across was an old conference room that had several different plastic and foam people, made for target practice. And yes of course they had been riddled with bullets. One of the people targets looked like Burt Reynolds while another adorned a gas mask. On top of the table, we found more paper targets, ammunition, riot gear, and real crime scene photos. In a different room next door, we discovered a room full of outdated surveillance equipment; such as cameras, video cameras, tape recorders, wiretaps, and polygraph equipment. Then the most memorable part was another room that had old mugshots and fingerprint cards scattered all over the floor, directly in front of several boxes stacked up full of years old criminal records and a large whiteboard with handwritten notes still showing open murder investigations. The most emotional part of this explore was the handwritten message on another smaller whiteboard located on the floor. It was left by a police detective as they moved out of the building in 2014. The message read “I am sorry to all the victims & families of homicides I did not solve. I am deeply sorry politics and ignorance got in the way.”
The extremely powerful statement was almost like a testimony to the infrastructure culture within the city of inkster police department at the time. After all, this was just months prior to the awful police brutality beating of inkster man Floyd Dent and amidst several other pending police brutality lawsuits within the city’s police department. Anyway, with that all being said, I am so hurt that I never got the basement on video.
Unfortunately, in 2018 the pipes in the basement busted open from a combination of scrappers and the harsh brutal Michigan winters and the entire basement was left underwater and subsequently impossible to explore ever again.
In 2023, the city of inkster sold all of the former municipal buildings and each building has since been emptied out. As work is now underway, it will be interesting to see what happens to the old inkster police station, courthouse, and city hall.
And that is going to wrap it up for the video on the abandoned inkster police station and courthouse. Getting the opportunity to explore and document a place like this with everything left behind, was definitely a rare experience. Finding an abandoned police station, courthouse, and city hall was not our average everyday explore. So we hope that you all enjoyed this one, as it was a fun explore, but at the same time, an emotional explore. For more photos check out our website at abandonedcentral.com. And don’t forget to subscribe to abandoned central on CZcams, so that you don’t miss any of our other videos. Thank you for all the continued support!
Those tapes in the safe are data backup tapes . They appear have been keeping sets of the data backups which is why they were in the safe I bet . That room must have been an office area from my thinking that room with the window was evidence check in or out or even weapons check in or out area . Thanks for this tour . I can’t believe how irresponsible of them to leave data backup tapes from their system for anyone to grab . Can you imagine the information someone can get from those ? Thanks for this video ! It’s awesome !
Thanks for your feedback! We figured it was something like that. Pretty crazy to see them leave everything behind like this. Glad you enjoyed our video Mario!
Great video!
I was thinking the same thing about the backup tapes, when I first seen it! I would of bought the tape drive, just to figure it out. haha.
Just found your channel. I live in Michigan. I appreciate your thorough background while showing the explore. Super well-done, sir.
That safe seems so shady
Man this crazy, I wonder where all the prisoners in them photos now, RIP any who aren’t with us anymore
Yea this was def crazy to find all this stuff left behind. Thanks for watching our video!
Thanks for the tour, very very interesting indeed 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching our video!
Leaving those records behind is criminal. How about some prosecution for that?
The building is likely still owned by the city. Using it for old storage.
It’s interesting the cops failed to protect privacy with those files. The safe in the floor with tapes probably interrogation tapes
Yes, people like to think magnetic tape is obsolete but this is not true ! Those are tapes for a computer system tape drive to perform weekly backups. You see it says it stores 60 GB. Magnetic tape can last for decades if stored in a cool humidity controlled environment.
I don't believe that the criminal records are left behind i believe that that is just as bad as a hospital that leaves behind medical records 😡🤬🤬😡
My guess is that they were digitized and they didn’t need the paper copies anymore, so they just left them there as a kind of storage I guess
@@xinx-fn8973 you got that right about that paper work that they don't have a use for any more
Shows how nobody cares to leave such stuff behind :-(
Do not touch the mike ..... holds the mike and thows it on the floor 😂 great video as always 😊
Haha thanks for watching Tracy! Glad you enjoyed it!
Very good video with a lot of details with good narration. Keep up the good work in the future. I wish you happy holidays from Serbia🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thank you so much for your support! Happy holidays!
@@abandonedcentral Thank you 🌟💫✨
Thanks for Joker! 😊
Can't believe all those tapes and videos are left behind. Some of those cases might not even been solved. And someone somewhere is probably banged up not knowing the full evidence. Imagine listening and viewing these. Would be interesting and probably disturbing aswell ?
Me and my friends want to explore this location on this upcoming week, thank you! I always lived around this neighborhood and I always thought they still kept a tight look and security on it
I believe the police station has been demolished and is now gone. I could be wrong but I thought I heard that a few months ago.
Wow thanks AC!!!!!❤❤❤
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed this video!
Good tour. 👍😌
Thanks for watching Linda!
Great Exploration. Do you have the full 2017 video?
Too bad that you couldn't find the cassette player that worked with that special cassette that you found. I have never seen tapes like that before.
What a shocking find!
Hey there im a new subscriber ... I am enjoying your content. Is it that they have to take all the criminals details and official paperwork and files with them? I thought it was the Law to clear an empty place such as a hospital and in this case, a police precinct.
Not so much,it deserves the reputation after the police beat up and mocked a man driving through a few yrs back.one officer ,robocop they called him did serve 13 months in jail for the violent assault.the man received a 1.4 million dollar settlement that the taxpayers had to pay for out of an extra property tax applied by the city.
I'm a big believer that ALL drugs should be legalized since this "war on drugs" is a lost cause and a total waste of tax money. Jails and prisons is a multi-billion dollar business every single year in USA alone. If all drugs were legalized over 3/4th of the jail and prison populations would be emptied, law enforcement and even judges laid off. The pharmaceutical company also makes billions pushing methadone and suboxone. I guess keeping drugs illegal keeps certain people employed or wealthy.
I grew up around Lansing, E. Lansing and Ingham county, so this really intigued me that they just left stuff out in the open to see.
The last pile of media formats was pretty cool, those small cassettes, were for a dictation recorder. The first tapes in the safe, I don't recognize, I've seen a video on 99% of the media formats.
Forgot to add. The backup tapes are not really "hidden" at all ! They are stored there to save the computer files in case of a fire. But most business's send backup tapes to off site storage. Keeping them onsite is not good practice.
Great video!!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
looks like somebody flooded the basement on purpose. That was a firehose at the top of the stairs
Why would they leave all those documents behind??
Happy i got to explore this place at its prime in 2018 had a good few hours in there and found money and cops came in and they took the money and escorted us out never got a charge never went back looks so different now was a lot cleaner back then and had way more stuff bacement was flooded though when i went still never got to see that
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That’s what happens to abandoned buildings in rough areas 🤷♂️
wow
Where was this at? Didn’t they turn that place into some sort of department store?
did u mean u found a magazine before when u siad clip i would have grabed 1 of those vests
That's a lot of personal & procedural information left lying about. Incredibly irresponsible on many different levels.
We agree. There was much more than we showed in this video. It was all sitting there for about 5 years.
On that cabinet are there syringes or ball pens ?
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Perhaps they went back for what needed.
1:35 Columbine School shooting snapshot.
I’m puzzled about that too