By George Hunter, MediaNews Group

Detroit — A mother faces felony charges after police say she smuggled a knife past a Detroit elementary school guard this month and gave it to her child, who allegedly stabbed a fellow student.

In Eastpointe, a woman was deemed competent to stand trial Thursday, after she allegedly fatally stabbed her manager at a McDonald’s restaurant.

The two cases are recent examples of the proliferation of females in the criminal justice system, which was the subject of a study released last week that broke down Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics from 1980-2024. Women accounted for 27% of adult arrests nationwide in 2024 compared with 14% in 1980, according to the FBI data.

During that period, there was a 317% jump in arrests of women for violent crime

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