Fired Chicago Top Cop McCarthy Gets New Job in Suburbs
Garry McCarthy, once one of the nation's leading big-city police chiefs, is set to become interim chief in a Chicago suburb of 5,800 people. He was fired as Chicago police superintendent in 2015.
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Former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, once one of the nation’s top urban police managers, has been appointed interim chief of police in suburban Willow Springs, Ill.—population 5,800, reports the Chicago Tribune. McCarthy who led Chicago’s 11,800-person force between 2011 and 2015, was fired in 2015 by then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel after the delayed release of a video showing former Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. McCarthy subsequently campaigned to replace Emanuel as mayor, but he finished 10th in a primary campaign even after Emanuel, who is now the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, dropped out of the race. McCarthy was recently working as a security consultant for a marijuana dispensary and is set to be sworn in at a Willow Springs Village Board meeting later this month.
