No, not every DM-stack has a coarse moduli space. The following is a counter-example (see my paper on geometric quotients):
Let X be two copies of the affine plane glued outside the y-axis (a non-separated scheme). Let G=Z2 act on X by y → –y and by switching the two copies. Then G acts non-freely on the locally closed subset {y=0, x ≠ 0}. The quotient [X/G] is a DM-stack with non-finite inertia and it can be shown that there is no coarse moduli space (neither categorical nor topological) in the category of algebraic spaces.
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