It’s been seven months since Aurora Police Department’s new chief stepped into an agency that is grappling with a transnational gang, a city that is suffering from a public relations black eye and a community that found itself at the center of the national debate over illegal immigration raged.
Todd Chamberlain swears he knew what he was getting into when he accepted the job as police chief, but even coming from Los Angeles, a city almost 10 times as big as Aurora, few could have imagined the national attention and scrutiny that unfolded over the last several months, particularly with the country’s new president launching “Operation Aurora,” aimed at rooting out the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and rounding up the criminal elements among Colorado’s population of immigrants unlawfully staying in the U.S.
Since Chamberlain started his position, the Tren de Aragua situation in Aurora has “changed for the better — without question,” he told The Denver Gazette…