The Three

All insiders:

• Three high-ranking Chicago police officials were picked as finalists to replace former Supt. Larry Snelling, including a candidate who, if selected, would be the first woman to ever lead the department.

  First Deputy Supt. Antoinette Ursitti, Chief of Community Policing Angel Novalez and Counterterrorism Chief Christopher Papaioannou were the choices of the commission tasked with conducting a nationwide search for the city’s new top cop.

  The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability voted Thursday evening to send the names to Mayor Brandon Johnson, starting a 30-day clock for him to make a pick or reject all three candidates and request a second search.

And after all the hoopla surrounding the search, guess who chimed in with something actually smart?

• John Catanzara, the fiery president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, predicted that Johnson’s latest pick for superintendent won’t be around for long. He said he has “very little doubt that there will be a new mayor and a new superintendent come spring.”

  “I highly doubt a new mayor is going to leave someone in place that they did not pick themselves,” Catanzara said.

truth be told, he probably read it here since our readers were saying this months ago.