These less than intelligent Candidates' essays will help determine finalists for the position of top cop in Chicago. I suspect these are computer generated, researched to death, basic first grade, questions. If this is all it takes for the job, something is very wrong. Perhaps, anyone with basic common sence should apply.
This was posted on the internet.
Answers to four essay questions -- outlining strategies to confront police misconduct, build public trust, improve diversity and continue recent crime reductions -- will help determine the names of three finalists for Chicago Police superintendent.
The application for candidates to succeed retiring Police Superintendent Phil Cline must be forwarded to the Police Board by 5 p.m. June 12.
Police Board President Demetrius Carney has promised to present Mayor Daley with names of three finalists by mid-July.
The eight-page application drafted by the board and its search firm, David Gomez and Associates, was posted on the Internet.
It asks candidates for the $185,652-a-year job to answer four questions:
1. Describe and discuss the three most significant accomplishments in your professional career that ...make you ... qualified to serve as superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.
2. What specific steps would you take to continue to address allegations of police misconduct and to build greater public trust of the Police Department?
3. Chicago has experienced a record decrease in homicides and other serious crimes over the past four years. What steps would you take as superintendent to continue this success? How would you address those areas of the city that have experienced less success than others and address the persistence of gang-related violence?
4. Do you believe it necessary to have greater diversity in the makeup of ... sworn personnel? If yes, how would you increase the percentage ... from under-represented groups?
Ten semifinalists will be summoned for 90-minute, in-person interviews by the end of June based in part on their answers to the essay.
