WDET Podcast: The Revolution In Mayor Bing's Law Department

One of  unexpected developments in the consent decree between the city of Detroit and the state is a challenge of the agreement from the head of the city law department.

Mayor Dave Bing appoints the department chief, yet he has stumbled in discussing whether he supports her challenge, and his most recent statement seems to indicate that he wishes she would drop the matter.

The fact that the mayor is powerless to control one of his appointees and the implications of that situation are the subjects of a well-informed discussion between WDET's Craig Fahle and Sheila Cockrel, the longtime city council member who now teaches at Wayne State University.