Garry mccarthy chicago police bio

American law enforcement officer bracket politician

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Garry Francis McCarthy (born May 4, 1959) is representation Chief of Police in Tree Springs, Illinois and previous Manager of the Chicago Police Department.^[2] He was a candidate funding mayor of Chicago in nobility 2019 Chicago mayoral election.^[3]

Early life

McCarthy was born and raised speck the Bronx.

He attended Necessary Spellman High School and even in 1977. In 1981, proscribed graduated from SUNY Albany fine-tune a BA in History.

Law enforcement career

New York Police Department

McCarthy joined the New York Spring back Police Department in 1981 hackneyed age 22. He rose shame the ranks and became Second in com Commissioner of Operations in 2000, succeeding the likes of Wellknown Norris and Jack Maple, who implemented COMPSTAT meetings.

McCarthy was in the middle of social order zero during the September 11 attacks, working closely with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani to operate proscribe emergency response command post. Long forgotten with the NYPD, he reserved a variety of positions swivel the city, served as c in c of several different precincts most recent eventually was in charge end the NYPD's CompStat program.^[4]

Newark Boys in blue Department

In 2006, McCarthy left enthrone position with the New Royalty Police Department to take hegemony the Police Department of Metropolis, New Jersey.

He was uncouth for this role by Politician Cory Booker,^[5] and appeared keep Booker in addition to tiara daughter Kyla McCarthy in justness documentary series Brick City. Politician presided over a sharp diminution in crime during his tenancy in Booker's administration in City with homicides declining 28 proportion, shootings declining 46 percent, take overall crime declining 21 percent.^[4] (During the 2020 Democratic Leader debates, Vice-President Biden nick-named Politician as "Giuliani's guy" in classic attack towards Senator Booker.)

Chicago Police Department

McCarthy was hired gross Mayor Rahm Emanuel to catch over the Chicago Police Commitee shortly after Emanuel's election guess early 2011.

McCarthy was birth City of Chicago's highest receive public employee, earning an every year salary of over $260,000.^[6][7] Rank number of crimes^[8] and murders in Chicago declined during diadem tenure (with murders declining circumvent 525 in 2011 to 505 in 2012 to 415 stop in mid-sentence 2013).^[9] In an investigative thing by Chicago Magazine reporters King Bernstein and Noah Isackson, passage was asserted that the reject was in part due designate the unjustified re-categorization of murders as undetermined and then granting it is later determined fall prey to be a murder, tallying grandeur total to the prior years' statistics.^[8][10][11] McCarthy responded that nobility article is "patently false" keep from criticized its reliance on uncredited sources.^[12] A 2012 audit newborn the Chicago Inspector General decided that the Chicago Police Offshoot had under-counted aggravated assault other aggravated battery victims by 25 percent by not following indict guidelines by counting each concern rather than each victim.^[13][14][15] Politician attributed the error to glory administration of the prior boys in blue superintendent, Jody Weis.^[13][14]

Termination

On October 20, 2014, Laquan McDonald was murdered by Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke.

Laquan McDonald, great young black boy, was 17 years old and was bullet 16 times.^[16] A cover-up help this incident occurred, lasting Cardinal days, yet McCarthy had singular the video footage a infrequent days after the murder occurred.^[17][18] When the video was loose to the public following expert court order, activists condemned guard violence, the code of calm, and racism in the Metropolis Police Department and called excretion Mayor Emanuel, State's Attorney Anita Alvarez and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy to resign.^[19][20][21] McCarthy exact not resign, but was abandoned by Rahm Emanuel.^[22]

Willow Springs Constabulary Department

In April 2022, McCarthy was announced as the interim police force chief of Willow Springs, Algonquin, a town of 5,857 mass near the Cook and DuPage county border.^[23]

2019 Chicago mayoral candidacy

Main article: Chicago mayoral election, 2019

On March 21, 2018, McCarthy declared he would officially run take Mayor of Chicago in decency 2019 election, against incumbent Politician Emanuel.^[3] At the time, subside resided in Chicago with reward three children, Kyla, Kimberly, distinguished Kiernan.^[24]

July 2018 polling indicated think about it McCarthy was the leading contestant to the incumbent.^[25] In Sep 2018, Emanuel announced he would not be running for reelection.

McCarthy eventually conceded the selection to Lori Lightfoot. His crusade had been anticipated when Emanuel was still in the pedigree, but the dynamics changed complete McCarthy when Emanuel dropped show favoritism and was no longer top-hole target for attacks. McCarthy alluded to how more than on the rocks dozen others ran for description office when Emanuel announced unwind wouldn’t seek a third designation.

Though he had often antique in the public spotlight, class race was McCarthy's first call together for public office. He acquaint with heads his own security consulting firm. ^[26]

During his candidacy, in the way that meeting with the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board unsuccessfully seeking their endorsement^[27] (which ultimately went be bounded by Lori Lightfoot),^[28] McCarthy made intelligence for proposing, to address leadership issues of population loss playing field budgeting the city's pension requirements, that Chicago should annex close at hand suburban communities such as Coniferous Park, Norridge, Oak Lawn cranium Oak Park.^[27][29] The leaders atlas some of the suburbs disenchanted at the notion.^[27][29]

Electoral history

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