Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown wears a face mask at a news conference on Monday, July 27, 2020 in Chicago. Police are reporting a drop in homicides and shooting incidents after the department rolled out two units designed to combat gun violence and ensure protests remain peaceful. It’s Monday,” he said. Historic violence Moments after he was sworn in as superintendent, Brown pledged a series of “moonshot” goals: the lowest number of murders on record, the lowest number of shootings on record and the highest level of trust in police officers from city residents. “We can’t quit. And they believe that their destiny is on the corner. David Brown is sworn in as police superintendent by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot after unanimous approval by the Chicago City Council on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said “we are making progress every weekend in different parts of the city” in combatting gang violence.“At some point, I’ll welcome the criticism, but not before it starts. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)Connect with the definitive source for global and local news Brown’s wife and daughter are also pictured. Earlier today Allahpundit wrote about the looting that took place in Chicago last night. “Chicago is like nowhere else.”Lightfoot made the right call when she tapped Brown, the former chief of the Dallas police, to lead CPD, rather than someone from inside the department, said Hatch, an anti-violence activist who has consulted with Brown on the department’s public safety plan.But, Hatch said, “The jury is still out. Interactive: Major events in Chicago during Superintendent David Brown’s first 100 days on the job. It’s not even created yet,” Supt. Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot announced today that she is appointing David O. Brown was the chief of the Dallas Police Department from 2010 to 2016. “It is unfortunate, because Chicago needs an independent and visionary superintendent.”Lopez said Lightfoot, Chicago’s first Black female mayor, had “emasculated” Brown and the Chicago Police Department.“The wrong person is making the wrong decision at the wrong time,” Lopez said.Even if the pandemic fades and violence begins to drop as the weather cools, Brown faces another challenge in the fall, when the City Council will be forced to grapple with the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus. David O’Neal Brown is Chicago’s newest Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. There were three homicides over the weekend compared to 12 and eight the previous two weekends and The tenuous progress touted by Brown was obvious late Monday when five people sitting on a porch in the South Side Burnside neighborhood were wounded by shots fired from a passing vehicle. A 22-year-old man was later pronounced dead at University of Chicago Hospital from a gunshot wound in the back. Anyone can do average.”After nearly 100 days at the helm of the CPD, a milestone he reaches Friday, Brown’s tenure has been anything but average — but certainly not in the way he had hoped. Chicago Police Supt. A man wounded in the buttocks was hospitalized in critical conditions and three others were hospitalized in good condition.Earlier Monday, a 10-month-girl riding in an auto on a Chicago expressway was shot in the shoulder. “And that is no small task.”David Brown is sworn in as police superintendent by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot after unanimous approval by the Chicago City Council on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Brown’s appointment as the 63rd superintendent was unanimously approved by City Council during a Wednesday meeting and, just hours later, he was sworn in by Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Matt Martin (47th Ward) said he was hopeful that Brown was prepared to collaborate with aldermen coping with a “potentially catastrophic loss of revenue.”All city agencies and departments should be prepared to “rethink their core missions,” Martin said.That is particularly true for the Chicago Police Department, which accounts for nearly 40% of the city’s general fund, and in light of a nationwide push to defund and reduce spending on law enforcement.“We need to reimagine what public safety looks like in Chicago,” Martin said. And it’s up to us as leaders to offer concrete solutions and a path forward. “The seeds for the shameful destruction we saw last night were sown in the 5700 block of South Racine Avenue,” Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said today. The weekend saw 64 shootings, 13 of them fatal. Police are reporting a drop in homicides and shooting incidents after the department rolled out two units designed to combat gun … CHICAGO (AP) — There has been a reduction in homicides and shooting incidents in Chicago since the city’s police force launched two units aimed at combating gun violence and ensuring protests and other large events don’t devolve into chaos, police said Monday.Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said “tenuous progress” has been made in the department’s efforts to stem gun violence. “I’m not here for average. Marshall Hatch, the senior pastor at New Mount Pilgrim Church in West Garfield Park, when asked to assess Brown’s first 100 days in office. Members of the new unit will instead participate every week in events such as prayer circles, food drives, COVID-19 resource distributions and other community events, Brown said.Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown wears a face mask at a news conference on Monday, July 27, 2020 in Chicago. David Brown said Monday gun violence is a complex problem that can’t only be addressed by the police. While protests took place in the city over the weekend, none of them turned violent, he said. CHICAGO — David Brown has officially been sworn in as Chicago’s new police superintendent.