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James
White
named
Detroit
police
chief
after
national
search
By
COREY
WILLIAMS
apnews.com
DETROIT
- James
White
has been
named
Detroit’s
police
chief
after
serving
since
June 1
as an
interim
replacement
for
James
Craig
who
retired
and is
looking
at a
possible
run at
Michigan
governor.
Mayor
Mike
Duggan
announced
Monday
that the
job now
belongs
to White
pending
approval
by the
City
Council.
Duggan
was
given
three
candidates
to
consider
by the
Board of
Police
Commissioners
following
a
national
search.
White,
53, is
the
latest
in the
line of
about a
dozen
Detroit
chiefs
since
1990.
Several
had been
forced
out amid
allegations
of
wrongdoing.
He
stepped
down as
chair of
Michigan’s
Civil
Rights
Commission
to take
over as
interim
chief.
“To
have
quit
that,
come
back
here on
an
interim
basis
knowing
what he
had to
go
through,
going
through
the
(interviewing)
process
like
everybody
else
with the
Board of
Police
Commissioners,
I think
it just
shows
how much
he loves
the
city,
how much
he loves
this
department,”
Duggan
said.
White
joined
the
city’s
police
force in
1996.
During
his
career,
he ran
the
Civil
Rights
Integrity
Bureau
and was
a
supervisor
in the
6th
Precinct
before
Craig
appointed
him
assistant
chief in
2013.
White
left the
police
department
in
August
2020 to
take the
civil
rights
post.
White
said in
May that
his top
priorities
would be
fighting
crime,
with a
particular
focus on
speeding,
“drifting”
and
other
traffic
violations.
He also
said he
would
balance
the need
to
uphold
the law
with
citizens’
rights.
On
Monday,
he
emphasized
the
importance
of
having a
good
relationship
with
Detroit
residents.
“We
need the
community,”
White
told
reporters.
“Our
community
deserves
excellence
in
policing.
I’m
going to
support
these
officers,
but I’m
going to
require
that
there is
excellence
and a
drive
toward
excellence
in
policing.”
Craig
announced
in May
that he
was
retiring
after
seven
years as
chief.
He
was
hired in
2013 by
an
emergency
manager
after
the
state
assumed
control
of the
financially
broken
city.
Craig,
who is
Black
and a
native
of the
city,
immediately
set out
to
restore
residents’
confidence
in the
Detroit
Police
Department,
which
had a
history
of civil
rights
abuses
by
officers
against
the
city’s
mostly
Black
population.
Last
month,
Craig
announced
the
formation
of an
exploratory
committee
to look
at a run
for
Michigan
governor
as a
Republican.
___
Williams
reported
from
West
Bloomfield,
Michigan.
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