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BLOOMBERG 
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City 
Councilmember 
Ali 
Ramlawi, D-Ward 5, shared in 
Jackson’s confusion. He said 
he understands the police chief 
will be on leave pending the 
investigation of a matter “we 
don’t know anything about yet.”
“There was no information 
given as to what it pertains 
to, only that there was a need 
to put the senior official on 
an administrative leave so an 
investigation can be conducted 
so we can have the best possible 
look at what happened,” Ramlawi 
said.
The Daily contacted Cox’s 
secretary Keri Hirschman, who 
did not reply prior to publication. 
Cox was sworn in as the city’s 
new police chief in September 
2019 
after 
being 
appointed 
unanimously to the position in 
July 2019 by City Council. Cox’s 
salary starts at $160,000 a year. 
Prior 
to 
coming 
to 
Ann 
Arbor, Cox served in the Boston 
Police Department for 30 years, 
including as a bureau chief for 
the Boston Police Academy from 
2018 until his leave. 
According to Jackson, Lazarus 
dealt 
exclusively 
with 
Cox’s 

leave. Lazarus had recommended 
Cox for the position in June over 
two other candidates vying for 
the role.
She said she found out about 
the 
leave 
Friday 
afternoon 
after being copied on an email 
from Lazarus to City Council 
members. 
Lazarus 
did 
not 
respond to request for comment 
prior to publication.
Ramlawi, 
as 
one 
of 
the 
liaisons to the ICPOC alongside 
Councilmember 
Jane 
Lumm, 
I-Ward 2, said he received a phone 
call from Lazarus informing him 
of Cox’s leave before the email 
was sent. ICPOC was established 
by City Council in 2018 following 
years 
of 
advocacy 
by 
local 
activists. 
Lumm 
did 
not 
reply 
to 
request for comment by time of 
publication. 
Ramlawi said he is unsure why 
Cox’s leave will last two weeks. 
“I’m not sure what made the 
city 
administrator 
believe 
it 
would just take two weeks, or 
whether they might come back 
and ask for more time after that,” 
Ramlawi said. “I would only be 
guessing.”
Jackson said the fact that 
the leave has a specified time 
frame “strikes a lot of people as 
strange.”
“If there is an investigation we 

want to know into what,” Jackson 
said. “If there is an investigation 
we’d like to know on what 
evidence that investigation is 
being 
conducted. 
Those 
are 
things we don’t have answers 
to now, and those are things we 
would like and we would like that 
information to be made public.”
Despite the ICPOC receiving 
minimal 
information 
about 
Cox’s leave, while he was being 
considered 
for 
the 
position 
in 
March, 
Cox 
emphasized 
transparency, expressing that 
he believes a police oversight 
commission had an important 
role to play in the community, 
bridging the gap between law 
enforcement and the public.
“I think in policing we don’t 
always educate the public or 
educate folks on what we do or 
how we do it, and the oversight 
commission is just an opportunity 
for that education process to 
exist in a more transparent way,” 
Cox said. 
Forsberg has also commended 
the commission as an important 
transparency and accountability tool.
“I 
think 
the 
policing 
commission 
is 
a 
great 
opportunity to begin bridging 
that gap,” Forsberg said. “We 
really only do begin building 
trust by having transparency — 
having accountability within the 

ranks. But we do a lot of great 
work right now that, I feel like, 
people just don’t know about.”
In 1995, Cox was beaten 
by other police officers while 
undercover. According to Cox in 
a previous interview with The 
Daily, his experience with police 
brutality and others in which 
he said he has been mistaken 
as the suspect rather than the 
officer have informed his belief 
in fostering trust between law 
enforcement and the community. 
“Interacting with the public 
in ways that don’t have to do 
with normal police work is 
important and builds trust,” 
Cox said. “It helps us figure out 
what the community wants. It 
helps the officers get to know the 
community, and the community 
gets to know the officers.” 
Though 
Ramlawi 
said 
he 
would like more information, he 
said he understands not everyone 
can know the details because 
there can’t be “five different 
bosses.” He urged patience as the 
investigation plays out.
“We need to have trust in 
a system that has checks and 
balances hopefully,” Ramlawi 
said. “You want due process. 
All too often, we just jump to 
conclusions… It’s important to 
take our time and just allow the 
process to work.”

Kurtz then introduced Dingell 
to the crowd. Though Dingell 
has not endorsed Bloomberg, she 
spoke about their friendship and 
the Democratic Party’s goal of 

defeating President Donald Trump 
in the 2020 election.
“I know every one of the 
presidential candidates,” Dingell 
said. “I’ve known Mike for a long 
time, so I’m staying neutral and I’m 
going to support who the people of 
the 12th District support because 
we got to come together. We cannot 
not come together because if we 

don’t, we have four more years and 
what it’ll do to our democracy, I 
don’t know.”
Following Dingell, Jones spoke 
to the crowd. He voiced his support 
of Bloomberg and of the campaign’s 
priorities. 
“I’ll tell you this, what I’ve 
learned over my 10 years of playing 
in the NFL is learning how to pick 

a great team, so welcome to Team 
Bloomberg,” Jones said. “This is 
why I believe in Mike, number one, 
he’s a great leader. He’s a motivator, 
and he’s a unifier. He never lets 
anything get in the way of success, 
things are practical. He’s got a 
practical way about him in order to 
achieve his ultimate goal and that’s 
to bring everybody together.”
The event closed with remarks 
from Erica Bolton, Bloomberg’s 
regional 
organizing 
director. 
Bolton expressed the importance 
of getting out and volunteering for 
a political campaign ahead of the 
2020 election. 
“I ask that you would continue 
to support, continue to be involved, 
continue to lend your voice to 
making sure that change happens 
because it takes each and every 
one of us,” Bolton said. “Even your 
neighbors and your friends that say 
they’re not political — because they 
are this year.”

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