Saturday, March 3, 2012

Chicago's new top cop shaking things up

Everyone expected Jody Weis to make changes in the Chicago Police Department when he left the FBI to become the first outsider in decades to head the city force.

He was, after all, taking over a department tarnished by a string of embarrassing incidents _ including the worldwide airing of a videotape allegedly showing a police officer beating a female bartender. And he was doing so just as the city was trying to polish its image in a bid to host the 2016 Olympics.

Weis marked 100 days on the job Saturday and he hasn't just ruffled feathers. He's plucked them.

He replaced 21 of the department's 25 district commanders. He announced that desk jockeys …

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