DENVER – The city of Aurora will continue its search for a new police chief and will not currently move forward with the two finalists named last month after they met with the community and city leadership over the past several weeks.
City Manager Jim Twombly said in a statement that community members and City Council members wanted the city to continue to the search for “a variety of reasons,” which he said he supported. “Moving forward, we will be assessing the process and determining next steps as we continue the search,” Twombly said. “People across our community may have differing preferences of who they want to lead the Aurora Police Department, but we will make sure that whoever is chosen will be held to serving every member of our community equitably.”
Controversy has surrounded the issue of who will be the next Aurora police chief since the day the finalists were announced on Sept. 21. Shortly after the city announced three finalists, a city spokesperson said one of them – Scott Booth, the chief of police in Danville, Virginia – had dropped out of consideration, but the city gave few details.
Members of the Aurora Police Oversight Committee held a news conference after that meet-and-greet calling on the city to start the process over, saying the two finalists would face doubts from the community because of their lack of diversity. And Assistant Senate Majority Leader Rhonda Fields and Sen. Janet Buckner, both Black senators from Aurora, said last week they were “deeply discouraged” by the city’s finalist picks and said they and other Black community leaders had been left out of the process.
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