Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling is set to retire Wednesday after more than three decades with the department and a short tenure leading the nation’s second-largest police force.
“…Once you know it’s time to go, then it’s time to move on, and then it’s time to allow someone else to come up and fill these shoes and sit in this seat and work the hardest that they can to continue to make progress for the department and the city,” Snelling said in a Chicago Tribune interview published Tuesday.
Snelling took the reins of the 12,000-officer department in 2023, after being appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson following a nationwide search. At the time, Chicago was dealing with a mixed bag of crime, with Snelling touting the need innovation and increasing trust between police and the community, as well as finding ways to tamp down violent crime…