Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 10/30/2013 10:01:54 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Chief of Police isn’t a certified officer in Michigan
DETROIT, MI - When faced with an attempted carjacking of his unmarked squad car, Detroit Police Chief James Craig just drove away. As it turns out, there isn’t much that the police chief could have done. Why? The chief of police is not a certified police officer in the state of Michigan.
Relaying his story to a crowd of about 50 people at a community meeting about Detroit’s carjacking problem, Mr. Craig explained that he “accelerated out of harm’s way,” rather than arresting the suspect.
Because Mr. Craig is not certified as a police officer, he does not posses the same authority to detain suspects based on reasonable suspicion and make arrests based on probable cause. Therefore, he is limited to making citizens arrests, which, under Michigan law, require a felony to have been committed.
According to the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards, Mr. Craig was sent paperwork for obtaining the certification in July, when his tenure began, but has thus far failed to return it.
This isn’t the first time Mr. Craig ran into troubles with obtaining state certification. At his previous post as chief of police in Cincinnati, Mr. Craig made a request to be waived from taking the state officer certification tests. Although he was granted a waiver from the vast majority of the training requirements, Mr. Craig was not exempt from requirements relating specifically to Ohio law.
Rather than fulfilling these requirements, Mr. Craig filed a lawsuit arguing that the test was unfair to out-of-state chief candidates and that the amount of time he would have to devote to preparation would be better spent elsewhere. Ultimately, he dropped the lawsuit after accepting the position in Detroit.
As of last week, there have been 582 carjackings in Detroit this year.
Are they still called "the big four" - two harness cops in front and two dicks in back, all big muthas?
no, they broke up the “Big Four” in the early 80’s..now they are 2 man cars..but my god, every one of em are gigantic.
They don't grow bananas in detroit........
>> “negro” beach on Dodge island
Yup, you’re absolutely correct - it’s the “colored” beach on Virginia Key. Dodge Island is the man-made one to the northwest of Virginia Key.
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