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Noakes spoke about how he would hold officers accountable for being disrespectful or for using excessive force at a candidate forum earlier in January. He cited improper and impractical training as a major issue that leads to officers using unnecessary and inappropriate violence. City of Fort Worth Deputy Chief Neil Noakes was one of two internal candidates for the job of Fort Worth police chief. The six finalists addressed the public for the first time at a forum on January 14, 2021. In a report commissioned by the city, a panel of outside experts found that the Fort Worth Police Department�...

Updated on January 25, 2021 at 10:30 pm NBCUniversal, Inc. Fort Worth city managers have chosen Deputy Police Chief Neil Noakes to be the new chief, replacing Chief Ed Krauswho announced his retirement last July, the city announced Monday “Chief Noakes is the right leader, at the right time, for the Fort Worth Police Department and the City of Fort Worth,” Mayor Betsy Price said in a statement on Facebook. “Chief Noakes has proven to have a heart for servant leadership and a vision for rebuilding and strengthening relationships within our communities. He and the 2,400-plus sworn and civ...

Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus is retiring, and six people are in the running to replace him. The city provided KERA with each candidate's cover letter and resume. The public met those candidates on Thursday night, at a forum at the Fort Worth Convention Center. Residents submitted over 100 questions, which were boiled down into six topics. One area of particular interest: How each candidate would hold officers accountable for being disrespectful, or for using excessive force. Wendy Baimbridge — an assistant chief in the Houston Police Department — said departments can't let misbehaving...

Fort Worth Weekly By Edward Brown iStock This past summer, as protests against police violence erupted across the country, local grassroots groups took a multifaceted approach to creating transparency within city politics and the Fort Worth police department. Petitions were signed that demanded participatory budgeting from Fort Worth leaders, police budgets were dissected like never before, and, in August, members of No Sleep Until Justice DFW, a police reform-minded group, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The request, said the grassroots group’s leader, Thomas...