Larry Snelling, the presumed next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, fielded questions on a wide range of public safety issues facing the city and the force he hopes to lead.
CPD Counterterrorism chief and future Police Superintendent, Larry Snelling, center, and Interim Superintendent of Police Fred Waller, right, attend the Fraternal Order of Police’s first of its kind ceremony, Sept. 1, 2023, to unveil a Suicide Memorial, honoring CPD officers.
For more than an hour, Snelling listened and offered responses — with varying degrees of specificity — to questions and comments that addressed resources for crime victims, community anti-violence efforts, asylum-seeking migrants sleeping in police stations, the CPD’s murder clearance rate and accountability for officers who commit misconduct, among other topics.Above all, Snelling said, a collaborative spirit between city residents and police officers is necessary to make Chicago a safer city.
“Great leaders have no fear of criticism, and it’s going to come,” Snelling told the several dozen who gathered to hear him. “When you know you’re making the right decision, it doesn’t matter how much criticism comes your way. As long as I can go home and sleep at night and know that I made the right decision, that’s the decision I’m going to make. I’ll make the best decisions for everyone involved. Not everyone’s going to like it.
“We’ve forgotten about our victims and we’ve forgotten about our children,” Snelling said. “Our children have become victims, and not just victims of crime, [but] victims of being ignored. And until we step up and we start looking out for our children in these communities, they grow up to become the next statistic.”“Because when you have a 14-, 15-, 16-year-old shooter, you can’t blame the 14-, 15-, 16-year-old,” Snelling said. “We have to start looking back to see where this child was failed.
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