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Chicago's new top cop guided by Dallas tenure, son's death

by AP Legal Affairs Writer
| April 3, 2020 4:27 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — As daunting as the challenges that await him as the new chief of a Chicago Police Department under pressure to implement sweeping court-ordered reforms may seem, they pale compared to what David Brown Sr. had to overcome 10 years ago following an afternoon phone call on Father’s Day.

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