DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ) — A newly-elected Detroit police commissioner says he will resign from his position less than 24 hours after a 7 News Detroit investigation revealed his criminal history, including threatening to shoot a police officer in 2023.
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Morris, who was elected as a write-in in a district where no candidate appeared on the ballot, has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies and spent time in prison.As 7 News Detroit first reported Thursday, Morris’s first conviction came following a 2009 incident where Morris was accused of forgery and impersonating a notary public.
“It was based upon real estate fraud,” Morris said. “It was taking homes from the bank that the bank got foreclosed on people, and we were fraudulently taking the deeds to the homes and deeding them over.”
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A year later, he would face more fraud charges that, he says, stemmed from the same criminal enterprise. He pleaded guilty this time and was sentenced to two years in prison.
If you go to the article, before he was even sworn in, he was out there interfering with cops who were trying to save an OD victim and got pissed off when he was told to back off. He felt he was disrespected and wanted to report the officer.
This is from another article right after his election:
Morris said he is eager to help repair the relationship between young Detroiters and the city’s police department.
“We also need to just raise awareness of what the police commissioners do,” Morris told BridgeDetroit. “A lot of the times, when I talk to younger people about us, they think we are actually police officers. So there’s still people who aren’t sure of what we are and what we do.”
New Detroit police commissioners sworn in at historic home - BridgeDetroit
And from the first article, we find this:
After police detained the driver of the mini-bike, Morris can be seen placing a silver badge around his neck.
Warren Police later claimed Morris said he was a “Detroit Police Department Chaplain at the 9th Precinct,” which he is not.
Morris says that’s not true; he is a chaplain, just not with DPD. He bought the badge online, records show.
So we have a convicted felon, elected to a non-LEO office pretending to be a cop. But wait, here is what makes me say “Fuck it, let it burn”: Detroit’s population is around 640,000 people and Morris got elected as a Write In with a paltry 518 votes.
I wonder how many of those votes were through Mail-In ballots. This also indicates the amount of “give a shit” people of Detroit have for the position. And, of course, this is a paying job that brings around $153,300 per year, including bonuses according to what I found online. Your tax money at waste.
When your population consists of mostly illegal aliens, it's hard to find eligible voters. Of course, with the felons being able to vote after serving their sentence, one would think there would be no shortage of voters to buy in Detroit.