During his successful run for mayor, Brandon Johnson repeated four “Cs” he wanted in Chicago’s next police superintendent.
New Chicago police officers listen during their graduation ceremony at Navy Pier, March 7, 2023.
While he hasn’t named potential picks, Johnson said he wants someone who understands the city’s dynamics and has the trust of rank-and-file officers. next leader. The commission opened applications for the job last week and “we’ll be going into every community, talking to folks on the front end, getting their feedback talking to rank-and-file officers.”
Whether the commission receives a slew of applications to run one of the nation’s largest police departments is an open question: According to the city’s Police Board, which was in charge of previous superintendent searches, there were 44 applicants when the job opened up in 2011, 39 in 2016 and 25 in 2020.
“Which would you prefer, to have your crime solved or your crime prevented?” he asked at a March debate. “The notion that you need someone from outside or inside should be put aside and you should say, ‘Who’s going to be the person to take Chicago and the Chicago Police Department to the next level?’” Wexler said.
Meanwhile, violent crime — murders, nonfatal shootings and carjackings — spiked and still remain at levels higher than before the onset of the pandemic. In 2022, the city continued to outpace its pre-pandemic violence totals, recording more than 700 murders and more than 2,100 nonfatal shootings. Riccio said Brown promoted officers too quickly during his tenure as superintendent. Those quick rises through the ranks left new CPD supervisors without the time to develop crucial leadership skills and earn the trust of rank-and-file officers, Riccio said.
Regardless of whom Johnson selects for the job, the next superintendent will have to work within the mandates of CPD’s federal consent decree — a court-enforced series of reforms that were born out of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald in 2014 and the ensuing investigation of CPD by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Use of Force Working Group, a collection of 20 city leaders, stakeholders and activists that convened after the unrest during the summer of 2020, issued a damningin March that concluded CPD’s training policies and procedures still reinforce many of the ideas that the consent decree aims to quell.
Boik said that “building morale internally is really one of the primary objectives of the next superintendent.”
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