New East Palo Alto police chief Jeff Liu rose through the ranks to become top cop

East Palo Alto's new chief of police Jeff Liu walks the streets of the city like a local because he is one.

EAST PALO ALTO -- East Palo Alto's new chief of police walks the streets of the city like a local because he is one.

On a recent walk through the city, Liu seemed to have no shortage of supporters. He hardly walked a block without people coming up to congratulate him on the street and in restaurants. Some even stopped in the middle of traffic. Liu began his law enforcement career in East Palo Alto in 2000. He served on patrol and led the investigations unit through hard times, when the city's per-capita murder rate was still one of the highest in the nation.

"I asked which hospital they took him to? Stanford? That was when the dispatcher told me that Rich didn't make it," Liu remembered."My heart sank, tears started flowing and I drove faster than I should have to get here as fast as I could, thinking there was something I could do to bring him back." "We had five homicides in 2022 and they solved every single one of them, including that park shooting that made national news. We can't make the city safer alone, we need the community, and the community has been stepping up."

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