Michael Cox, longtime Boston police officer and current police chief in Michigan, to run the Boston Police Department:
Michael Cox speaking after he was named the next commissioner of the Boston Police Department at a press conference in Roxbury on Wednesday.
Cox will start on Aug. 15. The city has said there were four finalists for the job, but would not disclose the other names. Wu said she had never crossed paths with Cox when he was working for the department. But she said she knew their priorities and values aligned as soon as she starting talking to him during the interview process.
Cox first joined the Boston Police Department in 1989 and eventually rose to become the superintendent overseeing the agency's bureau of professional development. That includes the division that investigates officers accused of misconduct. But after Cox chased a suspect over a fence, some officers say they mistook him for a suspect and violently beat him. He was left on the ground until members of his unit called for medical help. Cox suffered kidney damage and head injuries in the attack. He also facedby fellow officers, starting in the days after the beating, when the assault became public and before he'd said anything about what happened.
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