From the Editorial Board: The search for Chicago’s top cop is down to six semifinalists. We have questions for them.
Mayor Brandon Johnson, second from left, and interim police Superintendent Fred Waller, left, attend a Chicago police graduation and promotion ceremony at Navy Pier on June 5.
The new superintendent will inherit a department that’s significantly understaffed, grappling with low morale, and tasked with law enforcement in a city where rising violent crime is foremost on the minds of Chicagoans.
He was eventually released in 2017 and exonerated. He was 37 when convicted, and is now 72 — robbed of freedom for much of his life by a detective who chose torture over justice. City Hall’s most recent payouts of $8.8 million are just the tip of the iceberg — the city doled out more than $100 million in police settlements in 2022.
The consent decree isn’t a suggestion box — it’s a court-ordered road map that gets CPD to a place where communities, particularly Black and brown neighborhoods on the South and West sides, can begin to put trust in law enforcement. Hickey’s right when she says progress could be much better. “We urge the city to immediately make short- and long-term efforts to ensure required reforms become daily practices,” Hickey said in a statement released June 29.
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