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    Larry Snelling, ‘son of this city,’ confirmed as next Chicago police superintendent

    by Sam Charles and Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune Sep 27, 2023 5 minutes
    Chicago Police Department veteran Larry Snelling arrives at Chicago City Hall on Sept. 27, 2023, where he was confirmed as the city's next police superintendent.

    CHICAGO — Larry Snelling was confirmed as Chicago’s next police superintendent in a City Council vote Wednesday, finalizing Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice for the longtime insider and South Side native to lead the department with a vision of rejuvenating officer morale and repairing community relations.

    Aldermen voted 48-0 to approve the department’s current chief of counterterrorism and a longtime instructor at the training academy as the next leader of the nation’s second-largest police department. Snelling was then formally sworn in as superintendent at a City Hall ceremony Wednesday afternoon before heading into his first day in charge.

    After outgoing interim Superintendent Fred Waller handed off the superintendent’s badge, Snelling addressed aldermen and urged a unified approach in addressing the city’s public safety challenges.

    “We have to find a way to stop this,” Snelling said in

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