Not only will Snelling will face immediate pressure to reduce crime and violence across the city, he will also face prompt calls to swiftly implement the court order requiring CPD to change the way it trains, supervises and disciplines officers. wttw
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Sunday tapped Larry Snelling, the head of the Chicago Police Department’s counterterrorism bureau, to become the city’s next top cop, charging the 31-year veteran of the scandal-plagued department with implementing a new approach to the surge of crime and violence that began during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and has yet to fully recede.Johnson is set to introduce Snelling as his choice to lead CPD at an 11:30 a.m.
In picking Snelling, Johnson passed over 22-year veteran Angel Novalez, now the head of CPD’s office of constitutional policing and Shon Barnes, the police chief in Madison, Wisconsin. Snelling will not only have to ramp up reform efforts but also cope with persistently high rates of crime and violence on Chicago’s South and West sides.
CPD has been without a City Council-confirmed leader since March 15, when former Chicago Police Supt. David Brown quit after former Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for reelection. Brown was replaced by former interim Supt. Eric Carter, who stepped down May 15, the same day Johnson took office. Johnson tapped interim Supt. Fred Waller, who resigned from the department in August 2020 after serving as the department’s third-ranking official, to replace Carter.
Not only will the next top cop face immediate pressure to reduce crime and violence across the city, they will also face prompt calls to swiftly implement the court order requiring the Chicago Police Department to change the way it trains, supervises and disciplines officers. The next top cop must also work to craft a stable schedule for officers, ensure that response times are the same on the North Side as they are on the West Side and the South Side and reorient the department to ensure “real community policing,” according to Anthony Driver, the president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, known as the CCPSA.
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