Police Chief James Craig and Charlie LeDuff
Fox 2's Charlie LeDuff, in a report called "The Americans," looks at violent crime in Detroit and America:
In Detroit, like most major Americans cities, homicides and shootings are climbing. In those same cities, however, officials assure their residents that is not true and that violent crime, as a whole, is down.
Urban centers across the country are on a low boil. People are afraid of the police and police are afraid too. And people are dying.
The Motor City is no different. Detroit Police Chief James Craig assures us that violence is way down but the truest measure of crime for most anybody is body count. So what's the body count?
"As of today, okay we have 144, compared to last year 128 (at this time last year)," Craig said.
That increase is about 15%, which is the same amount as Chicago, the same city that's catching hell.
LeDuff also talks to a Detroit cop who says it doesn't feel like crime is down.
"Reading the reports I read and seeing what I see," the cop tells LeDuff. "I can't sit here in good conscience and tell you yeah, crime is down. We just don't have the officers anymore."
