James Craig: "“If you point a gun at officer (Photo: Deadline Detroit)
James Craig (Deadline Detroit photo)
First the good news.
Carjackings in Detroit dropped 69 percent from 1,231 in 2008 to 379 last year, George Hunter of the Detroit News reports. As of April 19, there had been 91 carjackings in 2017, down from 102 during the same period in 2016.
Now, the bad news.
The city still averages more than one a day.
“The numbers are down, but we’re not going to wave a flag of success,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig tells the News. "There is still work to be done."
“Carjacking is the kind of crime that strikes fear into average citizens. I won’t say it’s unique to Detroit, but when I came here, I was struck by how often it happened, and how it was just accepted as an everyday part of life.”
Police say most of the time carjackers are just using the car for a ride and have no intention of selling it.
