Interim police chief begins shakeup

One of the biggest police reorganizations in Chicago in decades was launched Thursday by Charlie Beck, the former Los Angeles police chief who's temporarily running the Chicago Police Department.

The changes include assigning detectives from five regional offices to the city's 22 police districts and creating a powerful bureaucracy to carry out civil-rights reforms.

Beck says it's no coincidence that the police departments in Los Angeles and New York also assign their detectives to police stations - and that the LAPD also has a powerful office of police reform.

The new organizational chart for the Chicago Police Department "is very similar to [those] two entities that I think are successful," Beck said in an interview.

Beck, who was the police chief in L.A. from 2009 to 2018, said he never intended to maintain the status quo in Chicago when he took the interim position late last year.

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