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Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability

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Mayor Johnson Delays Picking New Public Safety Commissioners

by Jim Daley April 5, 2024March 24, 2025

ntil yesterday, the interim members of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA) had planned to hold this month’s meeting as a celebratory close to more than eighteen months of service. On March 8, the commissioners sent fifteen permanent CCPSA candidates’ names to Mayor Brandon Johnson. The mayor had thirty days to announce […]

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Mayor Johnson Rejects Nominee for 1st Police District Council

by Jim Daley November 7, 2023November 17, 2023
Larry Snelling, wearing the CPD's dress blue uniform, raises his right hand while facing the camera. Ana Valencia raises her right hand while facing Snelling. Valencia has long black hair and is wearing a multicolored red and black blouse. In the background, outgoing interim superintendent Fred Waller, a bald Black man wearing a suit, is slightly out of focus and facing the camera and Valencia, watching Snelling take the oath of office. The wall behind them is gray marble. Several other people are out of focus in the background.
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Snelling Confirmed as CPD Supt. After ‘Historic’ Nomination Process

by Jim Daley and Max Blaisdell September 27, 2023September 28, 2023
An official CPD photo of Chief Larry Snelling, wearing dress blue uniform with tie and cap. Snelling's face has been replaced with documents from compliant files from his career as an officer.
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Larry Snelling Garnered Multiple Use-of-Force Complaints in the 1990s

by Max Blaisdell September 6, 2023September 6, 2023
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‘Doesn’t Make it Wrong’

by Jim Daley September 1, 2023January 13, 2024

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