BOSTON — Mayor Michelle Wu has made her pick for police commissioner: Michael Cox, a longtime veteran of the department who rose up through it after fellow officers confused him with a suspect and beat him in the 1990s.
Cox, 57, has been the police chief in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the past few years, but he’s returning to his hometown of Boston to start as the city’s new top cop on Aug. 15 — more than a year and a half after the last time the department had an on-the-job police commissioner.
“It’s time for us to get back out there and reintroduce ourselves to the public,” Cox said, talking to reporters on Wednesday morning about his priorities that heavily included improving community policing. “We get back out of the cars, to have more community forums, where we’re getting feedback from the public. You know, own some of the historical stuff that’s happened in the past so we can move forward together as a city, as a department.”
