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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Larry Snelling, mayor’s pick for top cop, vows to help both ‘forgotten’ crime victims, disenchanted officers: ‘We have to love them’

Chief Larry Snelling, the man nominated by Mayor Brandon Johnson to be Chicago’s next police superintendent, smiles Monday during a press conference at City Hall. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Larry Snelling, the Chicago Police Department’s 54-year-old counterterrorism chief, is Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice to be the city’s new top cop.

Determined to improve rock-bottom police morale, Johnson chose a 29-year CPD veteran he apparently believes is best equipped to do just that over two other finalists: Angel Novalez, the 50-year-old head of CPD’s Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform; and Madison, Wisconsin, Police Chief Shon Barnes, 49.

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