Officers with the Detroit Police Department Gang Squad keep the peace as crowds wait outside Cobo Center in Detroit. Detroit residents were seeking applications for federal assistance money for the homeless. The city received nearly $15.2 million in federal dollars under the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program, which is for temporary financial assistance and housing services to individuals and families who are homeless, or who would be homeless without this help. Photos taken on Wednesday, October 7, 2009. ( John T. Greilick / The Detroit News )