William L. Hart (January 17, 1924 – November 22, 2003) was a Detroit Police Chief for almost 15 years, a position for which he was hired by Coleman Young, the mayor of the Detroit, in 1976; Hart was a political ally and adviser of Young's. Hart served as a Detroit policeman for four decades, and was Detroit's first black police chief and the city's longest serving police chief until that time. He was honored by the AARP in 1988 and in 1992 sentenced to 10 years' prison and ordered to pay back $2.3 million he had stolen.
