CHICAGO - Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson will retire from the department after handling three years of high-profile crimes and a federal probe into police shootings, while also lowering
the city's homicide rate from a two-decade high, a police spokesman said on Thursday.
Chicago's homicide rate stood at a 20-year high of 792 in 2016, when Johnson took over the police department, and had dropped to 561 by the end of 2018. Johnson was appointed in 2016 by then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel to restore public trust after the previous superintendent, Garry McCarthy, was fired amid public outrage that the city delayed for more than a year the release of a video that showed a white officer's fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.
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