152 Detroit police officers quarantined amid coronavirus outbreak; 5 test positive
Detroit Police Chief James Craig says 152 police officers are out amid the coronavirus outbreak, including five who have tested positive for COVID-19.
“I’ve never seen anything like this," Craig said during a press conference Friday. "As of right now we have 152 members of the police department that are quarantined. Of that, 130 were ordered to quarantined; 22 self-quarantined."
He added: "At this point we currently have five sworn police officers and one civilian contract employee who has tested positive for Covid-19 ... It’s certainly a cause for concern … I can tell you that our services at this point will not change.”
Craig noted that while he had previously modified protocol to give officers much more discretion over whether to respond to minor misdemeanors, this has not changed.
"What’s non-negotiable is misdemeanor arrests for domestic violence, criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree and certainly felonies," Craig said. "Any inference that we are turning a blind eye to crime is totally inaccurate. Crime will not go up because we’re taking a different posture on low level misdemeanor crimes. It just will not."
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