CHICAGO – The Chicago Police Department’s chief of patrol, effectively the second-in-command of the nation’s second-largest police department, will retire June 1, according to a department statement.
Jon Hein has led CPD’s patrol division since March 2024. Since the retirement of First Deputy Superintendent Yolanda Talley, he has been the second highest-ranking member of the department under Superintendent Larry Snelling, supervising CPD’s response and coming under fire for how police responded to the federal government’s sweeping immigration raids.
As chief of patrol, Hein supervises the most visible aspects of the Police Department that define its image in the minds of most Chicagoans, including emergency response, crisis intervention, traffic control, routine patrol and community policing efforts…