His father was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served as a reserve police officer at the time of the 1967 Detroit riot, when James Craig was in fifth grade. He graduated from Cass Technical High School and joined the Detroit Police Department in 1977.
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In addition, Patel has oversight of the security service MI5, which last year was given responsibility to take the lead in tackling rightwing terrorism, officially designated as a major threat to national security. This month, the new head of MI5 warned of its growing threat.
The UK home secretary, Priti Patel, is under fresh pressure after it emerged that she appeared to have dismissed intelligence briefings from counter- terrorism police to the Home Office over an alleged far-right terror attack.
James E. Craig (born 1956) is the former head of the Detroit Police Department. He served in this capacity from 2013 to 2021, after previously serving as chief of the Cincinnati Police Department and Portland Police Department .
In December 2015, Craig said that terrorist are unlikely to attack Detroit because so many residents have concealed carry permits. In January 2016, Craig was designated as Detroit's deputy mayor.
As police chief, Craig initiated Project Green Light to provide police live stream of videos to businesses to better respond to crimes there. He has also initiated programs to cut gang membership and large scale sweeps aimed at finding people with outstanding warrants. In August 2019, Craig responded to controversies surrounding facial recognition software being used to identify criminals. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib tweeted out for the Detroit police to stop using facial recognition, to which Craig invited her to their Real Time Crime Center, where they operate Project Green Light. The Detroit Board of Police Commissioners ruled for the facial recognition policies to be limited to still images of suspects in criminal investigations, which Craig welcomed and heralded.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election in Michigan, Craig said supporters of President Donald Trump who had attempted to push their way into an absentee ballot counting center in Detroit were "peaceful" and contrasted them with a local branch of Black Lives Matter (BLM), who he called "outside agitators" due to the majority of them being white and hailing from the suburbs.
His father was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served as a reserve police officer at the time of the 1967 Detroit riot, when James Craig was in fifth grade. He graduated from Cass Technical High School and joined the Detroit Police Department in 1977.
He officially took office on July 1, 2013. In his first year as chief, homicide cases made a modest drop from 332 to 300 between the years 2013 and 2014. In early 2014, Craig made national headlines for saying more armed citizens would decrease the crime rate.
Craig rejected their assessment. Detroit reported a 19 percent increase in homicide cases in 2020, with non-deadly shootings up 53 percent, though this was part of a trend of increasing crime nationwide, ...
Out of 27 terrorist plots disrupted in the past four years, eight have involved rightwing extremists. In addition, Patel’s department presides over the government’s counter extremism strategy, Prevent, which aims to help vulnerable individuals people from being radicalised to supporting terrorism.
Separately, senior Home Office officials involved in its counter-extremism portfolio have said they were made aware of a suspected far-right attack before Patel resumed her attacks on immigration lawyers at the Tory party conference.
James E. Craig (born 1956) is an American law enforcement official who served as the chief of the Detroit Police Department. He served in this capacity from 2013 to 2021, after previously serving as chief of the Cincinnati Police Department and Portland Police Department.
Craig was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. His father was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served as a reserve police officer at the time of the 1967 Detroit riot, when James Craig was in fifth grade. He graduated from Cass Technical High School and joined the Detroit Police Department in 1977.
Craig first worked at the Detroit Police Department from 1977 until he was laid off in 1981. He went to Los Angeles to work for the LAPD for nearly three decades. From 2009 to 2011, he was police chief for the Portland Police Department in Portland, Maine. From 2011 to 2013, he was chief of police for the Cincinnati Police Department in Cincinnati, Ohio. During his tenure with the Cincinnati police, the crime rate was its lowest since 2000, though it was part of an overall trend of decreas…
In May 2021, it was reported Craig would be announcing his retirement from the Detroit police. He had previously met with Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, chair of the Republican Governors Association, and other Republican officials in talks about a potential run for governor of Michigan in 2022 against Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer. On June 1, 2021, Craig retired after 44 years of service in law enforcement. In July 2021 appearances on Tucker Carlson Tonight Craig indicat…
In March 2020, Craig tested positive for COVID-19 during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Michigan.
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• mlive article on Craig
• May 21, 2015 Detroit Free Press