Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice to be Chicago’s next police superintendent sailed through a City Council committee Friday following a hearing where the South Side native and 31-year Police Department veteran delivered the progressive administration’s most strident support for cops yet. Chief Larry Snelling, the department’s current chief of counterterrorism and a longtime instructor at the .
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Larry Snelling, the presumed next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, fielded questions on a wide range of public safety issues facing the city and the force he hopes to lead Thursday during the first of five public forums he’ll take part in before he assumes leadership. For more than an hour, Snelling listened and offered responses — with varying degrees of specificity — to .
For the first time since he was chosen by the mayor to be Chicago s police superintendent, Larry Snelling took questions from the public and called for a collaborative spirit .