Supernintendo Finalists Set

Official word comes out on Thursday:

• Chicago’s search for its next police superintendent reaches a critical point Thursday, when the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability is scheduled to vote on three finalists and send their names to Mayor Brandon Johnson. The commission’s search, which began on July 16, one day after Larry Snelling resigned from the post, attracted 46 applicants, a level of interest comparable to the 2023 process that resulted in Snelling’s appointment.

  The vote at Malcolm X College, 1900 West Jackson Boulevard, will take place on the final day of the 120-period city ordinance gives the commission to complete its search and submit three candidates to the mayor. Johnson will then have 30 days to select one of the finalists for City Council approval or reject the entire slate and ask the commission to produce a new list. If he rejects the candidates, he must explain his decision in writing, and the commission will have another 30 days to submit three replacements.

CWB thinks they have two of the names:

• Although the applicant list remains confidential, the two finalists from the 2023 search who lost out to Snelling have been widely speculated as lead contenders, if they applied for the job this time: Shon Barnes, the former police chief in Madison, Wisconsin, and Seattle, and CPD Chief Angel Novalez, who leads the department’s Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform.

The third is likely Ursetti. 

Place your bets!