Common Council’s unanimous vote clears way for formal swearing-in.
At 40, Krokoff will be one of the city’s youngest police chief in at least a century and possibly ever. One of the most remarkable aspects of his ascension from relative obscurity outside the department he’s served for 17 years has been the lack of controversy that has accompanied it.
Establishing a vision is among the first things Krokoff has said he will do, vowing to draft a strategic plan based in part on a soon-to-be-unveiled overhaul of the city’s entire community policing philosophy. Community policing — a vague buzz word often used as a catch-all to describe efforts to break down walls between citizens and police — will have concrete, if different, meanings in each of the city’s diverse neighborhoods, Krokoff has said.
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