Chicago Police Board names CPD superintendent finalists

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CHICAGO (WLS) --
The Chicago Police Board has named its three finalists in the search for the city's next police superintendent. One of the candidates is an insider with years of command experience with the Chicago Police Department.

Out of a pool of 39 applicants, Dr. Cedric Alexander, Anne E. Kirkpatrick and Eugene Williams rose to the top.

Alexander is the chief operating officer for public safety in DeKalb County, Georgia. Kirkpatrick was the police chief in Spokane, Washington, until she retired in 2012. She served as police chief in a total of three cities over 16 years. Williams is currently the deputy police superintendent in Chicago. He was also a finalist for top cop job in 2011 and has risen through the ranks in his 36 years with the CPD.

MORE: Read resumes and application essays for all 3 candidates

Chicago Police Board President Lori Lightfoot made the announcement at the Harold Washington Library Thursday morning. She said the city's new superintendent must demand accountability and lead the department in a new way. She said it was an exhausting search.

"We looked at every aspect of their experience in policing, as far back as we could possibly go. Particularly, for example, the question of police-involved shootings, how they handled that," Lightfoot said.

The final choice lies with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who also is under fire in the police accountability scandal. Emanuel fired former superintendent Garry McCarthy after officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with murder for shooting Laquan McDonald.

"I'll look at where they came from, I'll look at what they've done, and I'll look at what they've done and whether they have the background to restore the trust in the efforts of community policing. And do it in a way because community policing builds trust and helps us reduce crime," Emanuel said.
Chicago Police Board names CPD superintendent finalists

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More Than 1,000 Shot in Chicago This Year
April 22, 2016 - The number of people shot in Chicago this year passed 1,000 this week, a grim milestone as gun violence in the city continues at a pace not seen since the 1990s.

The city reached the 1,000 mark on Wednesday, when 13 people were shot over 14 hours, including a 4-year-old boy hit in the foot as he walked with his mother in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. Another boy, 6, was cut on the finger during the same incident, according to police. In the Austin police district nearby, four people were wounded in three shootings during the day. The 1,000th person shot apparently was a 16-year-old boy wounded in the knee shortly before 4 p.m. near 131st Street and Champlain Avenue in the Altgeld Gardens public housing complex, according to data compiled by the Tribune.

Members of the Chicago Police Department work the scene where five people were shot while filming a rap video in Foster Park on the 1400 block of West 84th Street​

In recent years, Chicago hasn't reached 1,000 shooting victims until June. Last year, Chicago recorded its 1,000th person shot on June 4, Tribune data show. In 2013, the city hit that mark on June 26, and the year before that, June 9. This year's toll is more than 66 percent higher than the same time last year, according to Tribune data. Through April 21, 2015, there were 600 people shot in Chicago; through the same period in 2014, 483 people; in 2013, 513 people; in 2012, 667 people (that year would see a spike in both shootings and homicides).

Chicago's homicides this year are up by 64 percent, with 161 reported by the department through Sunday, compared with 98 over the same period last year, official police statistics show. In the early to mid-1990s, homicides peaked at more than 900 a year. The number of people shot in Chicago this year exceeds the nation's two larger cities, New York and Los Angeles, combined. Through April 10, 246 people had been shot in New York, a city more than three times the size of Chicago, according to New York Police Department statistics. In LA, a city with more than a million more people than Chicago, 294 people had been shot through April 9, Los Angeles Police Department statistics show.

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