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"Criminals are getting the message that good Detroiters are armed and will use that weapon," Detroit Police Chief James Craig told The Detroit News, citing declining crime statistics in the Motor City. (associated press)
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Detroit police attend the funeral for Jayvon Felton at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit on Monday, March 3, 2014 in Detroit. Chief James Craig spoke during the family hour ahead of the service and said the department wanted to treat Jayvon’s funeral as if the boy was an officer. Jayvon was in an open casket and wore a police badge. Jayvon was diagnosed in April with leukemia. He died Feb. 24 at a Detroit hospital. The fourth-grader had always wanted to be a Detroit police officer. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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A flag is draped over the casket of Jayvon Felton during funeral services at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit on Monday, March 3, 2014 in Detroit. Chief James Craig spoke during the family hour ahead of the service and said the department wanted to treat Jayvon’s funeral as if the boy was an officer. Jayvon was in an open casket and wore a police badge. Jayvon was diagnosed in April with leukemia. He died Feb. 24 at a Detroit hospital. The fourth-grader had always wanted to be a Detroit police officer. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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Detroit police attend the funeral of Jayvon Felton at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit on Monday, March 3, 2014 in Detroit. Chief James Craig spoke during the family hour ahead of the service and said the department wanted to treat Jayvon’s funeral as if the boy was an officer. Jayvon was in an open casket and wore a police badge. Jayvon was diagnosed in April with leukemia. He died Feb. 24 at a Detroit hospital. The fourth-grader had always wanted to be a Detroit police officer. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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Members of the Detroit Police Dept. salute after the funeral for Jayvon Felton at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit on Monday, March 3, 2014 in Detroit. Chief James Craig spoke during the family hour ahead of the service and said the department wanted to treat Jayvon’s funeral as if the boy was an officer. Jayvon was in an open casket and wore a police badge. Jayvon was diagnosed in April with leukemia. He died Feb. 24 at a Detroit hospital. The fourth-grader had always wanted to be a Detroit police officer. (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 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)
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Michael Eruzione, left, scorer of the decisive fourth goal for the USA in the game against USSR on Feb. 22, 1980 in Lake Placid, is embraced by team mates John O'Callahan, David Silk, and goalie James Craig after he brought his team into the lead. (AP Photo)
