In case you missed this INSANITY - Dearborn's police chief bragged that his Michigan force went from 3 percent Arab to 45 percent, blesses hijabs in the justice system, and closed with praise to Allah. ⠀ Chief Issa Shahin said that when he joined Dearborn Police in 1998 the city was nearly 50 percent Arab American and the department was under 3 percent. He now puts the Arab American share of the force at 45 percent. ⠀ "It's a department that respects the dignity and rights of all individuals including the right to wear hijab even when facing the justice system," Shahin said. He ended the remarks with "Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah." ⠀ That phrase means all praise is due to Allah. He delivered it in uniform at a podium with an American flag on one side and a Lebanese flag on the other. ⠀ The department's latest public face is Officer Nour El-Zein, a midnight patrol officer shown in a hijab behind the wheel of a marked Dearborn cruiser. The city posted her profile as community policing and traffic stops. ⠀ Dearborn already put a hijab on a uniform in 2016 when Amal Chammout became an ordinance officer. Shahin now treats that covering as a rights victory even at booking and court. ⠀ Shahin is Dearborn's first Muslim police chief, appointed in 2022 by Mayor Abdullah Hammoud. He is the son of an Egyptian immigrant father and an Albanian mother, and he has publicly thanked his Palestinian American wife Deanna. ⠀ The department reports about 188 officers and says it is fully staffed. Shahin also sits as vice chair of the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards. ⠀ Dearborn is a city of about 110,000 and the densest Arab American community in the country. Census and local estimates put the Arab share at roughly half the city and the Muslim share around two in five residents. ⠀ Recruiting to "look like the city" is a choice. Closing an official speech in prayer language is another. The badge still has to answer to the Constitution, not to a demographic target.