About C.A.P.E. : Capitol Area Peace Enforcement
Captial Area Peace Enforcement (C.A.P.E.) is an organization serving youth through education, gun violence and substance use prevention, mentorship, and life skills development.
Mission Statement & Approach
C.A.P.E.'s mission is to strengthen the protective factors of Greater Lansing Area youth and prevent youth violence through evidence-based practices, education, and life-skills training.
C.A.P.E. utilizes an approach to recruit and strategize working with youth in the Greater Lansing Area that responds to adolescents’ needs and goals for the future. This method is called STRONG - Scout, Teach, Respond, Orchestrate, Nurture, Graduate.
Youth are scouted based on the need to implement the protective factors CAPE outlines, as well as CAPE’s qualifying factors for service inclusion.
Lansing/Ingham County Crime Data, 2024-2025
Crime Statistics, Broken Down
The pie chart to the right details the different types of crimes and the rate of each infraction committed in 2025. The most commonly observed violent crime was theft, at 36.6% of all infractions committed. The second highest was assault at 31.7%.
The second image is a Spreadsheet created by the Michigan Committee on Juvenile Justice (MCJJ) that details the rate of Juvenile Crime committed in Lansing in Fiscal Year 2024. Lansing youth between the ages of 10 and 17 years old were charged with crimes related to Weapons, Disorderly Conduct, Violent Crimes, and Property Crimes at higher rates than any other juvenile infraction. Black juveniles were charged at a higher rate than Caucasian and other non-white juveniles.
Image sourced from City-Data.com
Spreadsheet from Michigan Committee on Juvenile Justice (MCJJ)
Lansing, Ingham County Crime Statistics, 2025
Lansing was ranked 49th on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2025 list of the most violent cities in the nation and 6th on the list of most violent cities in Michigan due to the prevalence of violent community and interpersonal crime throughout the city. According to police data, violent crimes were reported at a rate of 9.7 per 1,000 residents, with a total of 1,116 violent crimes reported in 2025. With a population of nearly 115,000 residents, Lansing's reported violent crime rate exceeds Ingham County's and the State of Michigan's. Lansing reported 662.1 crimes, compared to the U.S. average of 180.9.
