Community connections, public safety and reimagining policing will be on the top of the agenda for Syracuse’s next Chief of Police. Mark Rusin was named the next department leader by incoming Mayor Sharon Owens this month
Rusin, currently a Deputy Chief of Police spoke with WAER about the job in front of him and some of the challenges he’ll face. He described the task as focusing on three parts.
“One, leave it better than the way you found it. Two, build the person who’s going to take your job over in four or eight years or whatever it is. And 3, really try to deepen the connections with the community. Build deeper community connections and then impart that knowledge on to the folks coming up underneath you,” said Rusin…