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Applications now open to serve on civilian police oversight commission

A lengthy list of requirements includes living in the city for the last five years, and not working for CPD, COPA or the Police Board in that time. The deadline to apply is noon on Feb. 7. Out of 14 nominees, the mayor will choose seven.

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Johnson’s first budget leans on one-time revenue, hopes for federal, state help to avoid tough choices down the road

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first budget is expected to sail through the Chicago City Council on Wednesday. It’s balanced in part with $786.5 million in one-time revenues. The search for new revenue sources has been punted to a Council subcommittee.

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New policy bars Chicago cops from joining hate, extremist groups

The policy was approved Monday by a civilian-led oversight panel after CPD investigated but took little action against cops with connections to far-right groups, including the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters.

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Police oversight panel asks city watchdog to investigate Chicago Police Department’s ties to extremist groups

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability on Thursday recommended the city’s inspector general investigate officers named on an Oath Keepers list so any extremists can be “rooted out” of the department.

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Chicago police oversight panel to push new outside investigation into cops with extremist ties

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability will vote Thursday on asking the city’s inspector general to investigate cops named on an Oath Keepers list.

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Incoming top cop Snelling is right: ‘We can’t do this unless we do it together’

Chicagoans and the CPD must take a step forward and start working together to change the city for the better.

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Mayor’s pick for top cop asks for collaboration from community at public forum: ‘We have to be partners in this’

Larry Snelling calls on the public to be partners with the Chicago Police Department in addressing deep-rooted community problems and fighting crime.

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Chicago mayor to introduce the police department’s counterterrorism head as new superintendent

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will introduce the police department’s counterterrorism head as his choice for police superintendent of the nation’s third-largest city

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Chicago mayor names the police department’s counterterrorism head as new police superintendent

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has named Larry Snelling, the police department’s counterterrorism head, as his choice for police superintendent of the nation’s third-largest city

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Larry Snelling, mayor’s pick for top cop, vows to help both ‘forgotten’ crime victims, disenchanted officers: ‘We have to love them’

Snelling’s appointment by Mayor Brandon Johnson must be confirmed by the City Council. Before that crucial vote, he is expected to be introduced to Chicago residents — and face questions — during at least one public hearing.

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Johnson urged to pick Snelling for top cop as signs point in that direction

The mayor spent much of Monday in exhaustive City Hall meetings with each of the three finalists.

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All three top cop finalists capable of being ‘generational leader’ Chicago needs, search leader says

Anthony Driver Jr., president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, has a favorite among the three finalists sent to Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has 30 days to decide. But Driver won’t say who it is.

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Chicago mayor to get names of 3 finalists for top cop Thursday, will have 30 days to make pivotal appointment

Larry Snelling, Chicago police counterterrorism chief, and Angel Novalez, chief of constitutional policing and reform, are seen as favorites to make the top three.

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Six candidates advance to semifinals of Chicago police superintendent search

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, a new civilian oversight body charged with leading the search, has until July 14 to pick three finalists and deliver those names to Mayor Brandon Johnson.

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Chicago’s top cop search: civilian oversight panel starting in-person interviews

Anthony Driver, president of the Community Commission on Public Safety and Police Accountability, said input from rank-and-file officers at an FOP meeting last week is something former CPD Supt. David Brown never would have allowed.

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53 people applied to be Chicago’s next police superintendent. Fred Waller is not among them.

More than half of the applicants came from people affiliated at one time with CPD. The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability will submit three names to Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson by mid-July.

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Back-channel search for Chicago’s top cop? Not this time, says president of civilian oversight panel

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s transition team members “have not tried to influence our process. They have not tried to submit names,” said Anthony Driver, president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, which is conducting the search.

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Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson names Fred Waller as interim police superintendent

Waller, who retired from the Chicago Police Department in 2020 after 34 years on the force, will take over when Johnson is sworn in on May 15.

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Search for Chicago’s top cop complicated by lobbying campaigns for candidates. ‘It’s not a popularity contest.’

Joe Ferguson, the city’s former inspector general, said the lobbying raises “some unseemly appearances which, given that this is Chicago, should be of concern.”

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Search firm to look nationwide for next top cop, public school ratings dropped and more in your Chicago news roundup

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As Chicago’s embattled top cop exits, search for his replacement marks new civilian panel’s first real test

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability said the incoming mayor won’t have outsized influence in recommending candidates and won’t be able to subvert the selection process.

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Next police superintendent should have 21st century view of policing

There has been a lot of talk about noncompliance with the court-mandated consent decree, but the truth is that while consent decree compliance is a requirement, it should be the floor and not the ceiling. True reform has to be the goal of the next superintendent.

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