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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tom Schuba

19 City Council members push candidate for top cop; head of search calls it ‘completely inappropriate’

Brian McDermott, the Chicago Police Department’s chief of patrol, speaks during a May news conference. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Nineteen City Council members have signed a letter expressing “disappointment and dismay” that a new independent commission charged with searching for Chicago’s next top cop hasn’t granted a follow-up interview to the city’s well-respected patrol chief who applied for the job.

Anthony Driver, president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, shot back Wednesday, saying the letter was “completely inappropriate” and complained that it was sent to the media before commission members saw it.

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