Should Ella Bully_Cummings Receive Judge Appointment?

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Should former Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings be appointed a magistrate judge in the 36th District Court?

Editorial: Too many questions
Don't place ex-Mayor Kilpatrick's police chief on Detroit court
The Detroit News
Former Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings has applied for an opening as a magistrate on Detroit's 36th District Court. It would be an unwise appointment.
Too many questions remain about her role as the city's senior police official during the disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's tenure. The ex-chief, an attorney, resigned the same day Kilpatrick resigned. She has admitted to questionable judgment in authorizing the use and cost of an expensive Lincoln Navigator by the former mayor's wife.
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She has denied a role in the firing of former Deputy Chief Gary Brown, the head of the department's internal affairs division, who was removed for investigating allegations of misconduct by members of the ex-mayor's security detail. She was not the chief at the time, but text messages indicate that while she was an assistant chief, she kept Kilpatrick's chief of staff and former lover Christine Beatty apprised of some of the events within the department.
Under her tenure, the police lab had to be closed down because of unreliable work and the department remained under the control of a federal monitor [[who has her own relationship with the ex-mayor to answer for). Bully-Cummings ran for a seat on the court last fall and was rejected. She shouldn't be rewarded now with an appointment to the lesser magistrate post.


From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110106/...#ixzz1AHnXbLET