DETROIT, MI -- Mayor Dave Bing on Thursday will release and discuss 2012 crime statistics in a 10 a.m. news conference.

Interim Police Chief Chester Logan, Assistant Chief Paul Welles and Inspector Dwane Blackmon of the city's homicide unit are also expected to speak on crime figures, including a significant rise in

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A deadly December that included

in which four people were shot to death in an east-side drug house brought the

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Detroit police

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The 2012 homicide total is

, which has 10 times Detroit's population.

of recent Detroit crimes.

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