San Francisco passes on Chief Hurtt
The two Hearst Chronicles report that San Francisco will not be hiring HPD Chief Harold Hurtt:
San Francisco has bypassed Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt to fill its top cop spot.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday reached outside the city and selected George Gascón, police chief of Mesa, Ariz., to replace outgoing Chief Heather Fong.
That's disappointing, but Hurtt probably won't be with us much longer in any case. It seems unlikely that any of the current mayoral candidates have any interest in retaining Chief Hurtt, and one of the stronger candidates has been crystal clear that he will not be part of a Parker administration:
City Controller Annise Parker already had called for Hurtt’s dismissal at an event earlier this month.
“I don’t believe he’s really ever integrated himself into the larger Houston community,” Parker said in an interview. “Public safety is so essential to everything we do, and we have to have a chief that has his fingers on the pulse of the city.”
We do need someone willing to commit to Houston, but my preference would still be a CompStat-oriented top cop, even though that likely would mean an outside hire.
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Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/17/09 08:46 PM | Print |
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