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The Latest Breaking News from Larry Snelling

City Council unanimously confirms Snelling as city’s top cop. Now the hard part.

Larry Snelling must confront Chicago’s persistent crime, including an alarming surge of robberies that has residents of several North Side neighborhoods up in arms.

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Chicago mayor’s top cop pick glides through first confirmation test

During a committee hearing Friday, Larry Snelling vowed to aggressively use technology to address robberies while supporting officers by bolstering mental health supports and giving them more time off.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago should fully embrace alternatives to 911 police response for mental health calls

Next summer a new state law will require every 911 district in the state to refer appropriate calls to a non-police mental health crisis response program.

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My fault Sox game not stopped after stadium shooting, interim police superintendent says

Fred Waller, Chicago’s temporary top cop, blames “miscommunication” for error, says issue has been remedied.

Chicago Sun-Times

Incoming top cop Snelling is right: ‘We can’t do this unless we do it together’

Chicagoans and the CPD must take a step forward and start working together to change the city for the better.

Chicago Sun-Times

Criticism comes with the job, Mayor Johnson

The mayor claiming criticism of him is racism is being thin-skinned, a Hyde Park resident writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor’s pick for top cop asks for collaboration from community at public forum: ‘We have to be partners in this’

Larry Snelling calls on the public to be partners with the Chicago Police Department in addressing deep-rooted community problems and fighting crime.

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Incoming top cop Larry Snelling should have the chance to pick his own leadership team

Snelling will inherit personnel changes he should have been the one to make. We’re also concerned about questions surrounding four of Interim Supt. Fred Waller’s picks.

Chicago Sun-Times

Civilian oversight commission poised to bury CPD’s error-filled gang database

The Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability also will hold a public forum Thursday with CPD Counterterrorism Chief Larry Snelling, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice to become Chicago’s permanent police superintendent.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s interim top cop shakes up command staff on way out the door

Some of Waller’s choices have troubled records. Two commanders have been accused of fostering a hostile work environment, and two other commanders have been named in costly lawsuits.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago murders are down 21% from horrendous 2021 as summer ends

Police data show murders are continuing to fall, but the numbers through August remain elevated from what was typical just a few years ago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Losing Tyshon Johnson and other kids to violence robs us all

Chicago’s sordid history has taken away our boys’ and girls’ abilities to be kids. It has robbed our city of its potential.

Chicago Sun-Times

Healthy communities need healthy first responders

To help our first responders cope with the stress they experience daily, we must provide them with critical treatment and support for mental health.

Chicago Sun-Times

Brass from the past: Top Chicago cops? I’ve known a few

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s appointment of Larry Snelling as Chicago Police superintendent prompted a peek into this reporter’s aging notepad, a flashback to 14 or so former Chicago top cops I’ve known or covered since 1967.

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New Boys and Girls Club opens on West Side ‘not only for our young people but by our young people’

The $15 million, 27,000-square-foot Rusu-McCartin Boys & Girls Club is the first new club from the organization in two decades.

Chicago Sun-Times

Picture Chicago: 17 must-see Sun-Times photos from this week in news

Mayor Brandon Johnson made his pick for the next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, the Bears beat the Titans in their preseason opener at Soldier Field, and thousands flocked to the South Side for the Bud Billiken Parade.

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Mayor scores a win with Snelling, a bad misstep with Arwady

Mayor Brandon Johnson selected 29-year veteran Larry Snelling to be the city’s next police superintendent, days after the misstep of abruptly firing Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady.

Chicago Sun-Times

New top cop in waiting vows to have officers’ backs

Among other things, Larry Snelling vowed to be more sensitive to officers, saying they are not “robots ... made on a conveyor belt. They’re human beings” with families they want to spend time with.

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Chicago’s new police superintendent inherits a department notoriously slow to enact reforms

Larry Snelling, the mayor’s choice to lead the Chicago Police Department, would take over a federally mandated overhaul of the department.

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Chicago mayor to introduce the police department’s counterterrorism head as new superintendent

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will introduce the police department’s counterterrorism head as his choice for police superintendent of the nation’s third-largest city

The Independent UK

Chicago mayor names the police department’s counterterrorism head as new police superintendent

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has named Larry Snelling, the police department’s counterterrorism head, as his choice for police superintendent of the nation’s third-largest city

Chicago Sun-Times

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

Snelling’s appointment by Mayor Brandon Johnson must be confirmed by the City Council. Before that crucial vote, he is expected to be introduced to Chicago residents — and face questions — during at least one public hearing.

Chicago Sun-Times

Keeping campaign promises will take time, top Johnson aide says: ‘Nothing can be done in a single year’

The pace of progress will depend on the amount of new revenue Mayor Brandon Johnson can get and when he can get it, Chicago’s COO John Roberson said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Johnson urged to pick Snelling for top cop as signs point in that direction

The mayor spent much of Monday in exhaustive City Hall meetings with each of the three finalists.

Chicago Sun-Times

All three top cop finalists capable of being ‘generational leader’ Chicago needs, search leader says

Anthony Driver Jr., president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, has a favorite among the three finalists sent to Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has 30 days to decide. But Driver won’t say who it is.

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