Detroit special ops

They all chose to leave and go back to working patrol after higher ups mandated they ride two men to a car, when for years they rode with three. It's more eyes and in the event of something like a foot pursuit when we jump out on somebody and they're armed and they take off. With a two man unit, one officer has to stay with the car and the other is chasing a known armed offender by himself and that's just not safe.

Just how unsafe? This police officer has been shot at six times in the past seven years. One of his partners has been in four shootings this year alone. The Ninth Precinct special operations unit took their concerns up the ladder all the way to Chief James Craig but they say he did not budge.

Rodney Cox. Cox commands the Ninth Precinct and says the transition to two man cars allows DPD to cover more ground and special ops members going to patrol actually gives them a better uniformed presence.

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