Commentary: We should not let the recency bias of David Brown color our view of outside leadership altogether. After all, outsiders can succeed at CPD, as recent history shows.
People at forums held by the commission have called for a CPD veteran. Rank-and-file cops have said the same. The names of at least four such people have even begun to circulate as supposed leading candidates. Johnson during the campaign indicated he would favor a candidate who came from CPD’s ranks, a position he has not amended since taking office.
True, Brown did come from somewhere else, and the scale of Chicago’s problems dwarfed those he dealt with in Dallas. But Brown ultimately couldn’t lead CPD not because he was an outsider but because he just was not a leader. He constantly shifted tactics. He developed little connection to rank-and-file cops, who retired in droves. He lost the support of his command staff — several of whom quit rather than continue working for him.
McCarthy came from New Jersey in 2011, under appointment by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and within a year was lauded for his handling of the NATO summit — specifically, standing on the front lines with no protective equipment, pushing back protesters who tried to disrupt the meeting.McCarthy also had ample flaws: a traditionalist mindset that resisted reform and the mishandling of circumstances surrounding the police murder of Laquan McDonald.
Beck did not have a CPD pedigree. What he did have was the experience of working within, then leading, the Los Angeles Police Department during a period in which corruption, racial bias and rogue policing were squarely addressed — in part as the result of the LAPD’s push to comply with its federal consent decree.Beck’s brief tenure shows what an aptitude for strategy and a reformist mindset can bring to the job.
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