Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan names James White as interim police chief after Craig retires
By FOX 2 Staff
DETROIT (FOX 2) - Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and members of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners named James White as the police department s interim chief Monday.
White will fill the role until a permanent replacement is selected. While the interim chief is in charge, the board of police commissioners will search to identify a list of candidates for Duggan to make a final selection. That must then be confirmed by the Detroit City Council.
White is a former assistant police chief in Detroit and is currently the director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. He left DPD last summer for that role.
by Violet Ikonomova White at a Monday news conference. Former assistant Detroit police chief James White, who left the department last year to head the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, will return to take over for Chief James Craig on an interim basis in June. Mayor Mike Duggan named Craig s temporary replacement at a news conference Monday, though indicated White could become a permanent fixture should his future performance look anything like his career. Craig is leaving as he considers running for governor as a Republican. White was appointed Civil Rights director by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in August 2020. He joined the department in 1996 and is credited with helping it implement reforms that closed the curtain on more than a decade of federal oversight in 2016.
Speculation begins on who could be tapped to replace DPD Chief James Craig
By Randy Wimbley and David Komer online producer
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Insiders talk about possible successors to retiring DPD Chief James Craig
The shockwaves of Detroit Police Chief James Craig s retirement announcement continue with many wondering who might replace him. Do they understand Black Lives Matter? Do they understand those issues that we ve got young African-Americans being killed and that is a platform that policing has got to understand now, said Willie Bell, board of police commissioners.
Those are just a few things the city s police commissioners are thinking about, as they ready the search to replace Craig.