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We currently don’t have a clear motive for why a 16 year old would want to shoot and kill other kids.
– Chicago Police superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I would argue it's been the most difficult time these last two and a half years to be police officers in this country, in our profession, we get the greatest reward because we get to help people every day – but we also assume the greatest risk to serve and protect every day.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Each of their losses is a tragedy that impacts a family, a department and the city of Chicago, when somebody is forced to live on fast food and caffeine, while living in that constant state of what we call hyper-vigilance, for 12, 13, 14 hours a day, that takes its toll.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are asking prayers for this officer and his family and we are praying for a full recovery.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is a stark reminder of at every hour of every day the men and women this department put their lives on the line, and it's another call to action to all of us to get guns off the streets of Chicago and out of the hands of individuals who should not have them. Acts of senseless violence can not be the norm in our city.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The officer noticed the gun falling out, but before they could take action, the offender grabbed the gun, picked it up and began immediately shooting at the officers.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These offenders have no regard for law enforcement.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you come downtown or anywhere else, let me repeat, or anywhere else to engage in disorderly conduct or crimes, you will be arrested.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's an outrage, when I heard this afternoon that a federal judge had released the man who illegally purchased and then supplied the gun used to murder Officer Ella French, I could not believe it.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We want to interdict how it gets into the wrong hands and that leads us right to straw purchasers. People who make blood money off of getting guns into the hands of felons, violent people, who couldn't otherwise get that gun in their hands.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The penalties in the federal system need to be much more conveyed to people to discourage this idea that this is a harmless, mostly clerical administrative violation of the federal system, it is blood money. You are getting the guns... to someone that will harm someone.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I always try to convey how brave and courageous it is to be responding to a shots fired call. To hear gunshots and run toward the gunshots when most people would run away, our officers consistently respond to these calls even given the circumstances of our grief after losing Ella French.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We don’t have an update, obviously, this is something viral on video, so I just ask the public to allow COPA to do its job in getting to the bottom of what happened.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This decision sets a dangerous precedent that straw purchasers like Jamel Danzy are not a danger to society, despite the fact that Jamel Danzy alleged actions directly led to the murder of a Chicago Police Officer and left another in critical condition.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 3 years ago
When I heard this afternoon that a federal judge had released the man who illegally purchased and then supplied the gun used to murder Officer French, I could not believe it, this decision sets a dangerous precedent that straw purchasers like Jamel Danzy are not a danger to society, despite the fact that Jamel Danzy alleged actions directly led to the murder of a Chicago Police Officer and left another in critical condition.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What we can do different is challenge the courts to render Chicago safe.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Ask the courts : Why are you releasing violent people -- dangerous people that Chicago police officers arrest and charge -- back into these communities to create this environment of lawlessness that we're seeing here ? what we can do different is challenge the courts to render Chicago safe.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Our officers are performing their jobs at the highest levels. They’re risking everything to protect the people of Chicago, and this includes our collaboration with ATF. ATF officers are also giving everything to protect the people of Chicago. No one would do what these officers do. This is a very challenging time to be in law enforcement, but they are rising to the challenge.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There is no previous criminal history of this person nor any other issues in our federal databases, but obviously very concerning given the position of the W Hotel to Navy Pier, our joint terrorism task force officers debriefed, interviewed this person along with a companion, and we are continuing this investigation.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This employee saw something by entering a room to clean it that likely prevented a tragedy from happening, so it’s significant and very valuable and we ought ... (to) praise that employee for being aware and letting us know so we could react quickly and potentially avoid tragedy.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We can not arrest our way out of this.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I just don't see in this room anyone that's going to give you officers from their ward, everyone out here in this room says' we need more cops.' So the rearranging of officers sounds great but you've got to work to navigate the labor contracts and navigate the political landscape of who gives up officers, who agrees to give you cops over their wards.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What happened in D.C. on Jan. 6 was an absolute disgrace, the fact that a Chicago police officer has been charged in that attack on American democracy makes my blood boil.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Chicago Police are saying at this point in the investigation that he was involved in the murder of Jaslyn Adams, that's Chicago Police specific statement.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Our Chicago Police officers faced an unprecedented set of circumstances in contending with a spike in violent crime, made even more difficult by having to contend with a health pandemic while facing extended periods of heightened civil unrest and looting.
– Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
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