Chicago police officers are too often are hired and then promoted into leadership without the needed competencies and experience.
Chicago police officers watch as demonstrators hold up signs at a protest outside the Police Department’s Harrison District station on April 9, 2024, after the Civilian Office of Police Accountability released body camera video of the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed. is that when you shoot at — let alone wound — Chicago police, they will shoot back and not count the bullets.
We can create a pool of high-quality police candidates by recruiting from high school military academies, ROTC programs and an upgraded Chicago Police and Firefighter Training Academy . The city now has six military academy schools and. These schools should operate with curricular and co-curricular programming that recruits future police officers and first responders.
Chicago police could also create a new “exempt level” class of distinguished officers who could serve as police training officers. Priority must be given to filling existing exempt ranks and especially sergeant vacancies. Effective command and control and the consent decree require a 1-to-10 sergeant-to-officer ratio and that sergeants be selected based on demonstrated leadership, performance and training. The driver of professional performance is professional front-line supervision.
Experience, accomplishments and additional training combined are the best criteria to ensure that those most qualified for promotion are indeed promoted. This is the best-practice promotion system the U.S. military uses, with great success. If you recruit high-quality candidates who reflect the community at the front end and promote based on time in service and advanced training, you will have a high-quality and diverse leadership corps.
Lastly, CPD needs effective accountability and oversight. COPA Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten’s stunning display of poor judgment inabout the Reed shooting remind us again of a fundamental problem that she and most COPA appointees have — a dangerous lack of understanding of what it is to be a police officer.
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