Surprising Bright Spot
Detroit Police Chief James Craig
Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Philladelphia, Atlanta, the list of rioting cities goes on. One name is conspicuously absent. Detroit. Why is that, considering its turbulent past? One would think it would be in the top three, at least, yet it’s not. Why is that?
Detroit Police Chief explains lack of violent riots in Motor City: ‘We don’t retreat here’
James Craig says city’s mayor, community members have ‘stood together’ against street radicals
By Victor Garcia
Detroit Police Chief James Craig joined “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Tuesday to discuss why the city has been spared the violent protests happening in other urban centers across the U.S.
“We don’t retreat here in Detroit. We’re just not gonna do it,” Craig told host Tucker Carlson. “You saw the images … of streets where there was lawlessness, looting, burning. No sign of police officers. We weren’t giving up ground to the radicals. We just didn’t do it.”
While Detroit has avoided major unrest, Portland has been gripped by nightly demonstrations and riots for more than two months while rejecting offers of federal assistance from President Trump.
In apparent contrast to Portland, Craig told Carlson, citizens of Detroit are “fed up with these radical protests.”
“I’m not to talking about these peaceful protests … [I mean] these misguided radicals that have tried to incite violence in our city,” the chief said. “They said, ‘We’re not going to put up with it.’ And so we got a couple of things. We got a great police department, great leadership, but we have a community that stands with us and said, ‘enough is enough.'”
Earlier this month, protests rocked the city after 20-year-old Hakeem Littleton was killed in an officer-involved shooting. However, authorities released video that showed Littleton opened fire on officers who were making an arrest before he was shot and killed.
At the time, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan commended Craig for releasing the video soon after Littleton’s death.
“So when you talk about what’s different here, we have a city that has stood together and oh, by the way, I know there’s a lot of conversation about the mayors in some of these big cities,” Craig said. “Our mayor stands with this police chief, stands with this police department [and] we are not going to tolerate this uptick in violence. That’s key.”
The contrast with NYC Mayor “Bolshevik Bill” de Blasio could not be starker. Am I going to pack up and move to the Motor City? Maybe if I lived in Chicago. This gives me hope there are strong willed mayors and well led police departments out there who by today’s media standards are not news-worthy, and only those cities pushing the left’s agenda make the headlines.
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In a few months, the cities that encourage rioting mobs will be deteriorating burned out shitholes. The ones that squash rioters will be improving.
The contrast will be impossible to hide.
And hitting up the Feds for rebuilding money.
You mean like New Mogadishu, I mean Minneapolis?
I call it Mogeapolis!
I’ve seen Seattle already being called “The Soy-veit Union”
You could also call it “New Monrovia”.
Minnemogadishu?
Like the Peoples Republic of Portlandia?
I like this guy.
Heck yeah!
Chief Craig is a shining example of a chief who leads. Mayor Duggan knows what kind of chief he has, he gets out of the way and lets him do his job.
Well done, Chief.
The citizens of Detroit have worked hard in the past decade or so to reverse the deterioration and improve the city. It’s not surprising that they are unwilling to give away the results of their efforts.
The Chief was on either WFTL 850 AM Radio or Fox news. Holy shit, I can’t remember which and the big 75 is a few months away. I just started taking Prevagen a week and a half ago to improve the old noodle. Last week I forgot the Alamo: Remember the Alamo.
Minneapolis announced yesterday that they found $49m (and asking for another $19m federal monies) to build three homeless shelters. This is to deal with the “homeless crisis” that’s taken over Powderhorn Park (near where Floyd died). This would be the Powderhorn Park where the residents have banded together to avoid calling the police on the rampant assault, drug use, and lawlessness that has them crippled with fear.
This will create 110 bed spaces. Without the federal monies requested, that’s more than $445k PER BED! You can buy two nice single family homes in Minneapolis for that price.
If they get the $19m from the feds, that goes up to $590k. Which is 20% more than I paid last year for my new construction four bedroom home.
Almost three times what I paid for a small 4 bedroom place on 3 acres. God bless Texas!
We could house 110 homeless in motels for $48 a night over a whole year for $1.9 million.
Let’s start a “non-profit” that houses homeless in cheap motels and pockets the difference between the 59 million and 1.9 million…
bwahahahahahahahahahaha!
The “new math” always kicks the libtards asses every damn time.
All-Points Logistics (CEO: The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress)should be bidding on the contact soon looking for preference with respect to “Phony” Phil’s felonious Native American, LEO and Navy SEAL claims.
Maybe Motown will return to its former glory some day.
Good mayor, good police chief. They make Cheapcaggah look like a dump led by a birdbrain.
I suspect that at least part of the reason Chief Craig is holding tough – and the reason that Detroit’s populace is backing him – is the fact that Detroit damn hear saw what absolute “rock bottom” looks like when the auto industry scaled back hugely. They’ve recovered somewhat, and do not want to go there again.
In any case: IMO other major US cities should take note.
No reason that electronics production won’t fit in, is there?
You need the right conditions, which include things like facilities, services, and the workforce
High-tech manufacture rarely has more than a tiny handful of “entry level” jobs, so available skillsets are essential. You can train, but experience counts.
Part of the problem in Detroit is the blight. Hard to build where services have essentially stopped and neighboring property values are seriously negative. Hard to insure a nice new factory surrounded by weeds and combustible rubble, with iffy water mains and the fire Department clear across the ruins.
Smart entrepreneurs can figure out what can work, but it takes time for rehab enough to draw high-tech. Then, if you focus on it, and get a tech boom, you can price folks out as newcomers bid up land.
Cities need Balance, so folks on the lower rungs have liveable places and available “ladder” jobs. Over focus on the super-duper-tech yields places like Silicon Valley, where cops and firemen and grocery cashiers can’t possibly live there.
Good point.
They survive by sticking together; not sowing division.
BZ to the Chief, The Mayor, AND the people of Detroit for standing firm against domestic terrorists. I would recommend these Gentlemen for Federal positions but their loss to the city may mean that Detroit starts a slide back into the morass that they are trying to climb out of.
A heart of American Industry nearly destroyed by the great sucking out of jobs and opportunities, by politicians, business owners, and yes…unions. Full disclosure, I was a dues paying member of the CWA Union. And like many of my union Brothers and Sisters, did not support the National Political Policies that the union “leaders” did. 100+ years ago, unions did some good. Over the last 50-75…not so much.
All of that being said, we can see that demographics/urban blight/economic opportunity or any other stereotypical terms do not always have a bearing on behaviour. Portland/Seattle mostly white, plenty of jobs has turned into a Marxist or Socialist sh^thole. Detroit? Mostly black, a burned out hull of what it used to be. Bring back the jobs that got shipped to China and give them another chance.
Wasn’t it Chief Craig who a few years back told Detroit citizens to exercise their 2nd Amendment right and arm themselves against thugs?
Same chief.
What a concept.
You get what you tolerate or reward.
So weird.
It’s like common sense or something.
Or, as Carl Jung might say it; “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism”
Put another way: “Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip”
It goes to show that you get what you decide to put up with and one look at New Mogadishu aka Minneapolis or the Veganezuela section of The PR Seattle OR The PR of Portland gives proof. A look at Detroit as well as the sections of Red State America where the antifa/BLM maggots have tried to infest like in Oklahoma where the maggots were met by LE, arrested and charged with terrorism along with Cour D’alene Idaho where they were outnumbered by Local Folks who were locked & loaded shows they don’t have the guts to mess with those who aren’t afraid to fight back!
Real “revolutionaries” are not dependant on permissive environments to maintain existence.
Most of those LARPing riot moonbats couldn’t handle opposition from a troop of determined Boy Scouts trained by SCAdians in “stick and board” fighting.
And wouldn’t that be fun video to share!
Out in OK, where folk own guns and think conflict resolution requires a tight shot group, leftist aren’t rioting every night.
Chicago PD has a new vacancy at the top:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2020/7/28/21345176/chicago-police-officer-shot-dead-homan-square-facility-dion-boyd
“A newly promoted Chicago police deputy chief was found dead Tuesday morning of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Homan Square police facility on the West Side.”
He was sworn in at a promotion ceremony July 15, 2020. He was a 30 year veteran with the department.