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Mayor Daniel Biss says a new Evanston police chief might end up supervising workers with responsibilities beyond what’s now seen as the role of police.
Speaking to the second meeting of his Reimagining Public Safety Committee Tuesday afternoon, a day after Police Chief Demitrous Cook announced his retirement, Biss said the city needs to decide what infrastructure it should build to provide for safety and how that infrastructure should be constructed inside the city bureaucracy.
“As it stands now,” Biss added, the Police Department has a staff of 140 to 150 individuals with a particular set of powers.