Chicago police Superintendent David Brown informed Mayor Lori Lightfoot he would be resigning effective March 16, a day after a mayoral election that appeared to signal his imminent dismissal from leadership.
Brown’s two-year tenure as Chicago’s top cop was marked by skyrocketing violence and slow progress with court-mandated police reforms as the police department struggled to navigate through a global pandemic.“Today, Superintendent David O. Brown informed me that he would be resigning as Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department effective March 16,” Lightfoot’s office said in a statement.
Brown issued his own statement Wednesday, saying he would take a position as CEO of a personal injury law firm in Texas. “While many people may think of Dallas like the 1980s TV show, J.R. Ewing, and cattle ranchers and 10-gallon hats and oil fields, I grew up in a neighborhood that looked more like Chicago’s West and South Side,” Brown had told the Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee. “I know the joys of living surrounded by others. I also know the struggles of growing up poor, living and working in a historically segregated city, as Dallas and Chicago share these difficult pasts and present.
During the last weekend of May 2020, a month into Brown’s time as Chicago’s top cop, the city faced massive looting, property damage, dozens of shootings that left many people killed, and a police department stretched beyond recognition. As the city spiraled into chaos, Lightfoot arranged for the Illinois National Guard to lockdown Chicago’s streets to bring calm.
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