Former Dallas police chief David Brown was praised in a 2016 New York Times piece for earning “a national reputation as a progressive leader whose top priority is improving relations and reducing distrust between the police department and the city’s minority residents.”3 Brown, who now serves as Chicago’s police superintendent, has regularly spoken candidly about the nature of police work. Some of his perspective is informed by his own lived experiences, including losing his son in a June 2010 police shooting, seven weeks into his position as Dallas’s chief. His son, David Brown Jr., suffered
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