DETROIT -- At the "Police and Pancakes" breakfast sponsored by the 9th Precinct on Detroit's east side, some 90 uniformed officers, activists and students mingled inside a community center. They squeezed into line to reach a long table where four aluminum chafing dishes brimmed with scrambled
DETROIT — At the “Police and Pancakes” breakfast sponsored by the 9th Precinct on Detroit’s east side, some 90 uniformed officers, activists and students mingled inside a community center. They squeezed into line to reach a long table where four aluminum chafing dishes brimmed with scrambled eggs, Danishes, fruit and, of course, pancakes.
The pancake breakfast was likely one of many points of infection. Out of about 2,800 uniformed officers and civilians who work for the department, 186 had tested positive for the virus by late last week, with more than 1,000 quarantined at some point. The chief, who spent 28 years with the Los Angeles police before taking the top job at the department where he started as a patrol officer, said that nothing in his long career — not mass shootings, not earthquakes, not the riots that followed the Rodney King beating — had prepared him for the pandemic.
Detectives who are used to sitting across a table from suspects are now doing interviews on the phone, unable to read clues like body language, mannerisms and facial expressions, said Lt. Rebecca McKay, an investigator with the major crimes unit. Even in-person interviews at the jail now have to be distant, behind glass.
Most of the homicides were drug-related, but officers said they were also intervening in more domestic disputes. “Dial-a-Dope” delivery services for marijuana were in high demand, Craig said, with buyers and sellers trying to rob each other. The new policy, combined with fewer officers on the streets and a stay-at-home order issued by Michigan’s governor on March 24, resulted in a marked drop in arrests. From March 24 to April 14, the police made approximately 736, according to official figures — less than half of the 1,518 arrests in the same period last year.
Still, suspicious die hard. On his recent shift, Perez, the recent academy graduate, extended a box of masks toward a man walking into a liquor store, offering him one.
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