Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is signaling that he will choose former D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey to become his new police superintendant. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Ramsey, 63, has told associates that he would “love to go home to run the Chicago Police Department.”
Ramsey, a Chicago native, began his career there as an 18-year-old cadet and rose to become the city’s deputy police superintendent. After 27 years in Chicago, he came to Washington, D.C., to turn around a troubled Metropolitan Police Department. In 2007, he was replaced by then-Mayor Adrian Fenty and became Philadelphia’s top cop in 2008. Since then the murder rate in Philadelphia has dropped 20 percent, and 40 percent in the most dangerous precincts.
Scott McCabe
