From runaway violence to COVID-19 to the Adam Toledo shooting, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown’s first year saw unending challenges – Chicago Tribune*
“He survived the first year,” said the Rev. Marshall Hatch, the pastor of the New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church on the West Side. “Going into a challenging summer, it’s really time for him to put his imprint on this department.”
Surviving is the best he could have hoped for. Between a Governor who postures before his supporters while making one bad decision after another, to a dimwitted Mayor who is a cartoon character, to the local media which slants coverage to show every criminal in their graduation gown that they never actually wore, his position was tenuous from day 1. He’s holding 10 gallon cans of gasoline while standing in the middle of an inferno. Survival was best case.
Surviving is the best he could have hoped for. Between a Governor who postures before his supporters while making one bad decision after another, to a dimwitted Mayor who is a cartoon character, to the local media which slants coverage to show every criminal in their graduation gown that they never actually wore, his position was tenuous from day 1. He’s holding 10 gallon cans of gasoline while standing in the middle of an inferno. Survival was best case.