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Mayor Daley has finally announced his pick for new police superintendent: J.P. “Jody” Weis, an FBI agent who was most recently the head of the Philadelphia field office. The City Council still has to approve the appointment, but given that Ald. Isaac Carothers, chairman of the City Council's police committee, says "maybe going to the outside might bring a fresh look — a guy who knows no one and owes no one,” is anyone worried? The last time an "outsider" came in to run the CPD was 1960, when O.W. Wilson came in to rescue the similarly scandal-plagued department.
Weis, pronounced "weese," has been with the FBI for 22 years.
A rough outline of his professional biography, from an FBI press release:
1979: Degree in chemistry from the University of Tampa
1984: Discharged from the Army as a Captain, after being comissioned as a Second Lieutanant and serving in the filed office of explosive ordinance disposal
1985: Houston division of the FBI, working on reactive crimes, terrorism, narcotics, violent crime and then the SWAT team
1992: Promoted to the FBI's Bomb Date Center
1994: Transferred to the violent crimes/fugitive unit
1996: Selected for the violent crimes squad in Phoenix, where then supervises domestic terrorism, international terrorism, and civil rights squads
2000: Promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Office, covering white collar crime, organized crime, violent crime, and administrative programs
2003: Promoted to Deputy Assistant Director of the Office of Professional Responsibility.
2005: Moved to Los Angeles field office where he served as the Criminal Special Agent in Charge.
2006: Appointed Philadelphia's Special Agent in Charge
The search for a new superintendent hasn't been an easy one. The Chicago Police Board gave Mayor Daley three names of candidates in July, but Daley wouldn't go for any of them and told the board to try again. Former Superintendent Philip Cline was appointed in 2003 but retired/resigned in April.
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Another lapdog, I'm sure. Does this guy have a mustache? Probably! I hope these coppers all go back to hell.
vise77, Weis does not have a mustache.
I'm cautiously optimistic that hiring someone from outside the ranks will help clean things up. Weis' resume reads pretty well, but let's revisit this story in several months and see how things have really changed.
OK, how long before he resigns?
I say 14 months. What do y'all say?
I will give the new hire the benifiet of the doubt. I hope this new leadership will improve the overall profesionalism of the police dept. I am surprised daley would appoint a FBI agent. The FBI seems to be doing alot of investigating into daleys administration I wonder if there will be any conflicts.
fed up
Makes total sense for Daley to hire someone with connections to the FED'S that way he can keep one step ahead of them and always have stool pigeion to take the fall.
Keep your enemies closer is what they say!
Now they sure as hell will never get him for his corruption.
The poverty pimp, Alderman Isaac Carothers, now gets a chance for more press time as leads the charge against police officers who are just trying to do their jobs.
Armed criminals? To Carothers, member of the Police and Fire Committee of the City Council, these gun-toting jerks are future rap stars.
I was at the aldermanic offices today at 4:00 PM to meet with another alderman. While waiting at the front of Suite 300, a Fox news crew came in asked for Carothers, and Carothers waddled out and did an on-camera interiew near the elevators.
Carothers, in preparation for his newspaper and TV appearances about the new superintendent, was better dressed than I've seen lim in a while. He had on a dark blue pin-stripe suit with padded shoulders to compensate for the ample girth below. Maybe he was on his way for an audition for "Guys and Dolls."
Carothers' waist was about to burst through that suit. To paraphrase Winston Churchill: Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much alderperson been held in place by so few buttons.
The 'Bomb Date Center'? Geez, who hasn't had a couple of those, eh?