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Former Interim Chicago Police Supt. Charlie Beck attempted to clear the air with the city’s current top cop Friday after David Brown said his predecessor’s de-centralized crime strategy “wasn’t working” and said Beck didn’t take police reform seriously enough.
In an interview with the Sun-Times, Beck pushed back on Brown’s claims and criticized his decision to abandon Beck’s attempts to put more dedicated officers in the community and instead create roving citywide teams of cops to fight crime.
Beck explained the “community-oriented style” he embraced pushes resources “as close as possible” to the areas they serve to foster relationships between citizens and police and build “healthy neighborhoods” that “don’t need the police so much because they have standards.”