Warren Evans Appears in Reality TV Trailer

"My name is Warren Evans, chief of police of the city of Detroit. It's my job to keep the city safe. I'll do whatever it takes," he said in a TV trailer.

"The Chief" is a reality TV trailer shopped to cable networks starring then Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans.

"I may be the chief of police, but I'm still a cop first. And if I'm going to ask my men and women to put their lives on the line, I have to put my life on the on line, too," Evans said in the video.

Talking tough, walking the mean streets of Detroit and trying to clean up a crime-ridden city.

"A city where young kids get involved in gangs and end up dead on the streets. A city where dead teenagers get dumped in a field right in the middle of a neighborhood, and no one in the neighborhood will give up information on what they saw in fear that next time the person dead in the field could be them," Evans said in the trailer.

But it's this image, in part, that helped lead to Evans removal. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing asked for Evans' resignation Wednesday.

"I was upset because number one, I was blind-sided by it. I knew nothing about it, and I didn't want our city depicted like that. We get enough of that from national media," said Bing.

But Evans dismissal also appears to be a result of his relationship with his girlfriend, Detroit Police Lt. Monique Patterson.

Though there's no policy against such relationships within the department, The Detroit Free Press reports Officer Shanda Starks filed a complaint against Evans alleging he interfered with her assignments and accusing her of gossiping about his relationship with Patterson.

An internal review found Chief Evans did interfere, that his actions were influenced by his relationship with Patterson and that created a hostile work environment and compromised morale within the department.

"Look I'm not trying to be some kind of hero or bad ass. I'm just doing the job I was asked to do the only way I know how to do it," Evans said in the video. "I'll do whatever it takes."