Joel Fitzgerald
Next stop in this whole prolonged police commissioner appointment process: Fort Worth, Texas.
City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young is leading a group of council members—also including Vice President Sharon Green Middleton, Executive Appointments Committee Chair Robert Stokes and Public Safety Committee Chair Brandon Scott—to Fort Worth to interview “a cross-section of people who have interacted with the candidate, Mr. Joel Fitzgerald.”
“Our questions will be open-ended. We want to understand Mr. Fitzgerald’s time in Fort Worth and allow for honest dialogue,” Young said in a statement Monday.
That dialogue will almost surely cover past controversies involving Fitzgerald, Mayor Catherine Pugh’s newly announced (and previously unannounced) pick for Baltimore City police commissioner. Soon after his name came to light in the search process last month, locals raised questions about the longtime cop’s three-year tenure in Fort Worth.
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