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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tom Schuba

Chicago’s top cop ends training agreement with Texas firm with ties to ex-police superintendent

Former Chicago Police Department Chief of Operations Fred Waller speaks during a news conference in River West after Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson introduced him as interim superintendent May 3. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Chicago’s acting top cop is ending the department’s relationship with a Texas firm that has been paid more than $1.3 million to train officers and is owned by a colleague of the city’s former police superintendent.

The firm, Professional Law Enforcement Training, is led by Byron Boston, who served in the Dallas Police Department with Fred Waller’s predecessor, David Brown.

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