“Police Chief James Craig was limited in what action he could have taken against a perceived carjacker because Detroit’s top cop isn’t certified as an officer,” detroitnews.com reports. You hurt your what? “Craig is not certified as a police officer in Michigan, so he doesn’t have arrest powers beyond making a citizen’s arrest . . . As a retired officer, however, he is allowed to carry a concealed weapon in all 50 states, per the 2004 federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act. Michigan doesn’t require certification for police chiefs.” So he had a gun but “A department spokesman said the chief drove away from the situation because no actual crime had been committed. Also, Craig is not certified as a police officer in Michigan, so he doesn’t have arrest powers beyond making a citizen’s arrest . . .
Although the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards sent Craig paperwork to become certified when he assumed command of Detroit’s Police Department in July, he hasn’t returned it, said Dave Harvey, the commission’s executive director.
This isn’t Chief Craig’s first non-rodeo . . .
When Craig became Cincinnati’s police chief in August 2011, the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission waived most of the state’s requirements to become a certified officer, said Dan Tierney, spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, which oversees the training commission.
“Craig had applied for a wavier of the training requirements given his extensive experience prior to coming to Cincinnati,” Tierney said.
“He was granted an exemption for a vast majority of the requirements, given his previous experience. The head of the (training association) at the time said to his knowledge, no other officer had ever been granted more waivers than Chief Craig.
“The only things not waived were specifically related to Ohio law,” Tierney said. “Those courses covered things that someone not trained in Ohio wouldn’t be aware of. Craig asked to have the requirement that he take the test be waived, and the commission did not grant him that waiver, so he challenged that in court.”
Craig, the first chief in Cincinnati history to be hired from outside the department, argued the test was unfair to out-of-state chief candidates. He insisted his time in Cincinnati was better spent learning the community and how to deal with its crime problem than cramming for a test given to recruits after 582 hours of training — a position publicly supported by Cincinnati’s mayor and other city officials.
A cop who doesn’t like to take competency tests. Go figure. [h/t Dirk Diggler]
What’s a cop’s job anyway? To turn up after the damage is done, and spray innocent bystanders with as many stray rounds as possible? Better off staying in the coffee shop scoffing donuts. The drug gangs own the streets anyway.
This pistol serves one useful purpose, at least for me, which is to motivate me to contact my elected representatives and have them sponsor a repeal of the NFA of 1934.
So does that mean the Chief has to have a concealed handgun carry license to carry concealed?
The Charlotte, NC top cop had an issue when it was uncertain that he had completed the requirements for the college degree listed on his resume. Seems that these sorts of issues are rather commonplace in the profession.
Must be a Masshole.
the local citizens might be safer seeing that he didn’t try to Help them….
In response to the budget cuts, the military found a sniper that would work for bananas
Now if the monkey can only get a Bead on Nancy Palozi…
What’s better than a barrel of monkeys? A barrel of monkeys with guns!
TrackingPoint, so accurate a monkey can use it!
Just because I have a tail, they call be a stupid monkey, well, just watch the reaction of those big apes when I shoot their banana in two!
Come on Bono… Just a little to the left. That’s it, now why don’t you go where the streets have no name!
Wow. That’s a lot of work, to find a gun show – they only happen 3-4 times a year here – and then to scout out a private individual to sell you a Glock. You could have just bought one at the gun store. That’s what the guy who shot you did.
You want to make a point, do a better job of it.
Decided to skip the whole Rock, Club, Knife, Spear, Axe, Atlatl, Bow and Arrow, Sword, Crossbow thing (who needs evolution) and go straight to the good stuff.
Dogfort comes to a tragic end during deployment in Zambia.
“As a former mental health professional I approve this message”
RF, you were a mhp? I thought you’ve been in the media industry like well forever.
Why is it that these knuckle heads don’t or cant realize that a gun free zone is a kill zone………
And where does it come from that it creates the next generation of gun owners??
How do these people honestly in their collective bones believe that a gun free zone can be a good thing anywhere??
I may be being Captain Obvious here, but it looks like the antis are taking the “Big Tobacco” strategy here. What next? A “Truth” like campaign? Although one could argue we already have one going on, sans branding. It’s just as full of lies, inaccuracies and misleading ‘facts’. My favorite is the one that says tobacco smoke contains urea. We all make urea. Our blood is full of it. We excrete it. So do all living, non-plant things. But since it’s also in tobacco, and kitty pee, it’s icky and we must get rid of smoking.
I keep hearing about the big bad gun companies funding the big bad NRA gun lobby. The NRA has been ranked as the top lobbyist in DC by Forbes in the past, do you think that because of deep pockets?
Do anyone honestly think gun companies can hold a candle to the money that the oil lobby, pharm lobby, or healthcare lobby can throw down, I doubt it.
Forbes ranked the NRA as the top lobbyist because they have 5 million voting member backing them.
They aren’t a lobbying powerhouse because of the money from manufactures, it’s because of they have the weight of a several million members to throw down.
Where are those Gas Monkey bastards?
“…defensive measures against active shootings.”
Try keeping guns away from imbeciles and nutjobs. Just a suggestion. No, that is too simple, instead turn schools into bunkers with a garrison.
Wow! Detroit’s top Cop not a real Cop. Why don’t he wanna take his test’s. My Mom had to take hers for Wayne Co. She was a mere Corporal.?. What’s UP with that!
Better get wit Craig Bro!