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FILE- In a Jan. 31, 2014 file photo, Jayvon Felton, 9, flashes his badge after he was named Chief of Police for a day by Detroit Police Chief James Craig at Detroit Public Safety Headquarters in Detroit. Felton, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in April. Felton, 9, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in April has died. Deputy Police Chief Rodney Johnson tells The Detroit News Felton died Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 at Children's Hospital in Detroit. Jayvon had always wanted to be a Detroit police officer, and his wish was granted on Jan. 31. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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FILE- In a Jan. 31, 2014 file photo, Jayvon Felton, center, becomes Chief of Police for a day with Detroit Police Chief James Craig, right, and mother Amanda Clinkscales, as he gets off a Michigan State Police helicopter at Detroit Public Safety headquarters in Detroit. Felton, 9, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in April has died. Deputy Police Chief Rodney Johnson tells The Detroit News Felton died Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 at Children's Hospital in Detroit. Jayvon had always wanted to be a Detroit police officer, and his wish was granted on Jan. 31. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 file photo, Detroit Police vehicles are parked in a neighborhood in Detroit where a 4-year-old boy was shot by his 4-year-old cousin with a rifle according to police. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Jose Juarez)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Thursday, July 26, 2012 file photo, Detroit Police officer Marlon Terry listens to a speech at the beginning of their protest in front of the Coleman Young Municipal Center in Detroit to protest of a 10-percent pay cut and changes in health care benefits under contracts imposed by Mayor Dave Bing. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, John T. Greilick)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Thursday, July 26, 2012 file photo, Detroit Police officers, firefighters and other municipal union members march around the Coleman Young Municipal Center in Detroit to protest of a 10-percent pay cut and changes in health care benefits under contracts imposed by Mayor Dave Bing. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, John T. Greilick)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this Oct. 10, 2013 photo, a new Detroit Police cruiser, left, drives by the department's older version in Detroit. In summer 2013, the business community donated about $8 million for a new fleet of 100 police cruisers along with ambulances. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 23, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2013 file photo, Detroit Police Chief James Craig speaks with the media during "Operation Mistletoe," a raid targeting drug dealers on Detroit's west side. The former Detroit police officer who spent much of his 37-year law enforcement career in Los Angeles returned home in the summer of 2013 to take what he called his "dream job" - chief of Detroit’s police. In a January 2014 report, he announced a sweeping reorganization and vowed to reform a police department he said had been woefully mismanaged and had "lost the confidence of the public, lost the confidence of its own officers and lost its way …" Or as Craig puts it more succinctly: "The bottom line _ the department, like the city, was broken." (AP Photo/Detroit News, Steve Perez)
