
Abandoned Police Station (& Courthouse): Inkster, Michigan
Here is an abandoned police station and courthouse in the city of Inkster.
Inkster is said to have one of the highest rates of crime in the entire country. Locals feel the crime rate matches that of neighboring Detroit.
A complex was constructed in the late 1960s, consisting of three buildings; the city hall, police station, and courthouse. They survived for 45 years before being abandoned.

In 2014, a new building was finished, these offices all moved out, and the whole place left deserted.
According to Abandoned Central, thousands of items were left behind: “criminal and traffic tickets, folders of criminal investigations, the booking area, the detective offices, the courtrooms, the evidence room, jail cells, police officer uniforms, jackets, bulletproof vest”...and then more surprising things in the basement.
Down there was a conference room that had several different “plastic and foam people, made for target practice.....riddled with bullets. One of the people targets looked like Burt Reynolds while another adorned a gas mask.”
Throughout the place more stuff was found: paper targets, ammunition, riot gear, crime scene photos, outdated surveillance equipment, cameras, video cameras, tape recorders, wiretaps, polygraph equipment, old mugshots, fingerprint cards, old criminal records, and notes revealing open murder investigations.
Probably the most memorable find was a handwritten note left by a detective: “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.”
Due to scrappers, looters, and harsh weather, the pipes burst in 2018 and flooded the basement, making it so nobody could ever explore there again.
Abandoned Police Station (& Courthouse), Inkster
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