A list of 53 applicants vying to become Chicago’s next top cop has been whittled down to six candidates, including five department veterans and an outsider who previously worked for the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the Sun-Times has learned.
Advancing to the background check phase of the nationwide search are: Counterterrorism Chief Larry Snelling; his now-retired predecessor, Ernest Cato III; Street Deputy Migdalia Bulnes; Constitutional Policing and Reform Chief Angel Novalez; Labor Relations Cmdr. Donna Rowling; and Shon Barnes, the police chief in Madison, Wisconsin, who spent about a year as COPA’s director of training and development.
