Who's leading the race right now and who will ultimately be the next mayor of Detroit?

It's 2001, an election year.

In a controversial character from a prior episode is running for mayor.

If you've picked up a paper, turned on a radio or TV, you probably know City Council President

Gil Hill is the early favorite to succeed as mayor of Detroit.

Gil Hill, the former head of the Detroit Police Homicide Division, the FBI believed he was corrupt.

They investigated him for allegedly taking bribes to cover up the murder of a 13-year-old boy.

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He has perceived to have close ties to a police department struggling to correct its inadequacies

while enduring a federal investigation into its practices.

Soon after the FBI started taking a look at Gil Hill, he retired from the police department

and ran for City Council President.

People began to refer to me as mayor.

Of course I didn't let that influence me.

And I had to think about it.

I had to discuss it with my family, of course.

I had to determine whether or not we could raise the money to win.

And lo and behold, it became apparent that all of those things could happen.

And I announced that I was going to enter the mayor's race.

Now, Gil Hill was poised to become mayor.

Gil's numbers appear to be getting stronger as the primary draws closer.

But there was one man who might just be able to stop him.

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