Hilton Napoleon, Inkster’s outgoing police chief, says his successor has a tough job ahead.
“Whoever goes in there, they’re going to have their hands full,” Napoleon, whose resignation is effective today, told Eric D. Lawrence of the Free Press. “It’s a very difficult position to be in.”
Napoleon, brother of Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon, cited adverse working conditions as well as the senseless killing of a 2-year-old girl earlier this month in the resignation letter he submitted Thursday.
Kamiya French, whose last name is also regularly given as Gross, was shot in the head in an apparent act of retaliation outside an Inkster housing project July 1. The killing, which also left the girl’s father and a 12-year-old family friend injured, has shaken a community that has seen more than its share of violent crimes.
“You just get to the point when they killed that baby, that was it for me,” Napoleon said this morning.
