Chief Hall Didn't Work Out. Here Is How City Hall Will Judge Our New Top Cop
We find ourselves in an insanely fraught moment for a new chief of police to start in Dallas. These times are not normal by any measure. What makes it worse is that we’ve had some terrible chiefs before. We have also had great ones. But in this moment, when we look at a new chief, is there some measuring stick by which we might at least guess what may lie ahead? And, by the way, because of magazine deadlines, I am writing this fully two weeks before the decision is announced. I have my own favorite candidates from within the department. Maybe the job goes to somebody I have never heard of. ...