Dave Kinchen
Dave Kinchen is a reporter for FOX 2 Detroit who concentrates on the auto industry and on how vehicles intersect with labor, consumer protection, crime, and daily life. He is known inside the newsroom and on-air for signature coverage of major auto stories, including union actions affecting the Detroit automakers. Across his recent work, he moves between factory gates, gas stations, and neighborhood streets, following the impact of automotive decisions and incidents on workers, drivers, and local communities.
Auto industry and UAW coverage
Kinchen is closely associated with coverage of the auto industry and organized labor, particularly the United Auto Workers. His author bio notes that he becomes known for signature reporting on the auto industry, including the UAW’s historic strike targeting all three of the major Detroit automakers. In live segments on a national news stream within the FOX family, he is brought on as the FOX 2 Detroit reporter to discuss the prospect of auto workers striking within days, underscoring his role as a frontline source on UAW developments. This work places him at the intersection of labor negotiations, corporate decisions, and the economic stakes for workers whose livelihoods depend on the auto plants.
His coverage in this area treats the auto beat as both an industrial story and a community story, tracking how union strategy and company responses ripple out through households and local businesses tied to the factories.
Consumer protection and gas price investigations
Kinchen also reports on consumer issues tied to driving, especially when state authorities scrutinize gas stations and pricing practices. In one recent piece, he covers a BP gas station in Romulus near Detroit Metropolitan Airport that is accused of price gouging by the state attorney general’s office, highlighting unusually high fuel prices compared with surrounding stations.
His story follows how the complaint triggers an investigation by the attorney general and notes that the pricing discrepancy leads to a second probe, showing how a single station’s practices can escalate into a broader enforcement response. Through this type of coverage, he treats the pump as a key point where ordinary drivers encounter possible abuse, and he focuses on what happens when regulators step in on their behalf. The reporting frames fuel pricing not as an abstract economic trend but as a concrete fairness issue for motorists in a specific place.
Crime, public safety, and vehicles
A recurring strand in Kinchen’s work links criminal investigations and public safety to vehicles, using individual cases to illuminate risks on the road and in parking lots.
He covers the killing of a woman found beaten to death in the back of an SUV on a city’s west side, pairing the facts of the case with the location and condition of the vehicle as central elements of the story. In broadcast segments and online clips, he reports on a man kidnapped, beaten, and left in a burning SUV, underscoring how a familiar object like a personal vehicle becomes the scene of a violent crime.
Other pieces follow incidents where children are found in hot cars or rescued after being left inside vehicles, again placing attention on everyday lapses or crimes that unfold around parked cars. Across these stories, Kinchen treats vehicles not only as transportation but as stages for serious harm, emphasizing the investigative details, police response, and community concern that accompany each case.
Local development and community impact
Beyond the factory floor and the crime scene, Kinchen’s archive includes coverage of local development decisions that shape the built environment around drivers and residents.
One story follows a city commission’s decision to deny a proposed data center plan in Allen Park, drawing out the implications of a large infrastructure project being turned away at the local level. By reporting on a commission vote and its outcome, he connects civic process to questions about land use, economic development, and the kinds of projects that communities are willing to host alongside their roads and neighborhoods. This strand complements his auto and consumer work, showing how he tracks the policies and projects that influence how people move, work, and live in and around their cars.
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