Acting police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was quizzed by Chicago aldermen for more than three hours Monday before a City Council committee signed off on his appointment.
In his first act, McCarthy put hundreds more officers on the beat this summer, a shift away from the Chicago Police Department’s strategy of fighting crime with specialized units.
“That’s an easy fix and a different management style than I’m accustomed to,” McCarthy said of the special units, which “parachute” into hot spots to respond to spikes in violence.
Those officers “may not go back” to their specialized units when the summer deployment ends, McCarthy said.
Several of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s other appointments also sailed through their committees Monday before the full council votes Wednesday. Among them: Gabe Klein for transportation commissioner, Amer Ahmed for comptroller and Rosemary Krimbel for business affairs commissioner.
