[2] He then went to the private sector working as Director of Fire Safety & Security for Delphi Saginaw Steering Systems, a subsidiary of General Motors.
[2] One of his early focuses was to overhaul the police department after complaints from residents over lack of service and racism after two white officers were relieved of duty for abusing a Black teenager.
[3][4] He also established a gang task force[5] and promoted the use of prisoner work crews to clean the city.
[7] in 1996, he was criticized for taking a trip to Nigeria with a group of Michigan mayors (Linsey Porter of Highland Park, Walter Moore of Pontiac, Robert Warren of Muskegon Heights, and Sondra Mose Ursery of Vandalia) despite its dismal human rights record.
[1] a 6,000-member organization based in Tuskegee, Alabama dedicated to fighting the AIDS epidemic and promoting debt relief for third-world countries.